Zach Woods Quotes

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

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

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

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I was 13, and I wish I had stuck with my piano studies.

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I was going make a jazz album, then a country album, then a rock album.

I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.