Tim Commerford Quotes

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats.

I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I've spent my life playing music.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

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

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

Music is all I know.

And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.