Miguel Zenon Quotes

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

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

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.

I lived for music since I could think.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember him playing in bands and listening to the music he was writing in the house - he's nine years older than me.

I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

I've been playing music since I was born.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Where music leads, I follow.