Michael Stipe Quotes

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

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 had this dream like years ago. I had this dream - I wanted to be in an all-black string band.

I wanted to be a guitar player.

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

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

My older brother was the guitar player in the neighborhood band. My parents were the cool ones that had the basement for rehearsal. Rather than hang with my peers after school, I wanted to just listen to the band. More than that, I wanted to play.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.