Jose Carreras Quotes

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I have never stopped playing music.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I love music; it's my passion.

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

I love music so much; I've always played.