Maceo Parker Quotes

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.