Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

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.

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.