Andy Grammer Quotes

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along to songs that I watched him write; it stuck with me.

Every time I step on stage an' see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs, it's a surreal moment for me.

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.

I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.

It's easy to get people to sing along to cover songs, but when it's your song, it's the coolest.

It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.

It's such a big dream of mine to be singing in front of my friends and family in my hometown.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

If I could have grown up to be Robin Thicke, I would have. But I'm glad somebody in the family did.

The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.