Michael Davis Quotes

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

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 feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

I have done nothing my entire life but play music.

I wanted to be known as a better musician more than anything.

I don't want to be looked at as just that guy with the best mixtape of the year. I want to be, all-in-all, an incredible musician.

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I'm always forming bands.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

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.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

Music is my sport, and I'm the number-one athlete.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

I always wanted to be in bands.