Cliff Martinez Quotes

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

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 always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

As much as I like to explore the world, I explore music - from classical to rock.

I'm really passionate about music.

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

I play a bunch of instruments.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

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.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

I'm basically a musician.