Bryson Tiller Quotes

I studied my craft at the same place as Nicki Minaj.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

My musical knowledge goes beyond hip-hop.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.