Tones and I Quotes

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.

I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.