Andy Grammer Quotes

We really like L.A. because it really likes rock and roll.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

I'm just used to the L.A. music life.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to when you're just starting out in a band.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

The thing with playing live is, most of the audience is in their 20s and 30s. If you're older than that, you don't tend to go out to shows anymore. So it's good if you can attract a younger audience because they've got the energy to get up off the sofa and go out.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

In Canada, the major centers to play are very few and far between. Bands that are traveling in Canada really have to travel between gigs.

My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.