Richard Manuel Quotes

I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.

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.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

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

I'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.

All I do is party.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

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 loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

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

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

'Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.

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

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

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 always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I've been playing music since I was born.

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.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.