Gerry Beckley Quotes

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

In my teens I wanted to be a rock star, I really did. At that time there was nothing I wanted more.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Who told you I was a musician?

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

I wanted to be a rock star.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

I really want to be a rock star.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.