Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

I love what I do. I love playing music.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

My family wasn't involved in music, but I love music.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

I know nothing other than singing and I feel blessed.

Music is all I've ever done.

I can't remember when I didn't have an instrument around.

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time.

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

Music was sort of my thing at first.

Although I wasn't fond of the violin in the beginning, as I played on I developed a fondness which soon turned into a passion.

From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?