Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

I was always an entertainer.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.

I write music. I'm in a band.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.

I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.