Jess Glynne Quotes

It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I studied percussion as a music student, and I didn't have the best of timing, so I could never make it as a professional, unfortunately.

My aunt played upright bass in the Louisville Orchestra, and I was always really impressed by her musical ability. I found it really fascinating as a kid that one could play music for a living.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep while Stephen Frears is filming you in front of hundreds of people is - well - psychotic.

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.

The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I'd play professionally.

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.