Gavin DeGraw Quotes

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.

A lot of people love men that rock; I love men that love a good melody and a good harmony.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

I want to show everyone what a good rock 'n' roll band we can be.