Kevin Parker Quotes

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.

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've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

I have a Stratocaster, which is part of my long, doomed ambition to become Jimi Hendrix.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

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

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

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 confess to being a frustrated musician.

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

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so I was always in a band and writing songs with singers, but I always had the dream in the back of my mind to make an instrumental record.

Since I was about a little boy, I've always wanted to do music.

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.