Michael Schenker Quotes

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

I been doing music my whole life.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

When I was 11, I decided that music was what I wanted to pursue as a career.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.