Kyla Reid Quotes

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

It's always fun to play songs by somebody else.

I would tell my mom, 'Sit down. I'm gonna play a show for you!' I would just perform. That was always something I loved to do. There was never a question of me doing anything else.

We're a bar band, so we know all the bar songs.

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it's all about. It's about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.

I'm always the person that is DJing spaces and moments. I'm crazy about music.

I DJ'd and sang at Miami Basel 2013.

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

I love music - in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

We lived above the church, and I remember there was no air conditioning in the church. I would shut all the windows and I would have concerts in there. Practice, you know, take the microphones.

It was an incredible experience performing for the members and attendees at the Diamond Resorts Invitational; it was such an impressive event, and I was honored to be a part of it.

I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

I love my regular job playing with Alice Cooper, I love doing my solo stuff, I love doing guest spots and guest tours. So I just love to play, and I'll play with anybody that'll have me, just about.