John Denver Quotes

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

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

I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

Musicians play music because you love... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there, I just decided to do sports and be more a high school kid and have my fun.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.