Ty Dolla Sign Quotes

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I always jump at the chance to mentor kids when it comes to music.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I know girls like musicians!

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.