Troy Carter Quotes

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I'm a producer/rapper, so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music, and I'm good at it.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

I do have musical background; I sing.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone and guitar. I'd definitely like to pursue it, and it's something I'd like to keep going, if not as a career, then as a hobby.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.