Andy Gibb Quotes

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.

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

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

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

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

I adopted this idea whether I was going to end up making music for three people in a bar or Wembley Stadium, I was always going to do music.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.

Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.

I've always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.