Sara Chase Quotes

I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I'd say I did a lot of what I did with songs like 'At My Best' was because of the influence of my daughter.

I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.