Langhorne Slim Quotes

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

I did the coffee house thing - we have coffee houses where people play, or we used to - and when I was 14, I started there. Just played all the time. Every weekend I had a show, or every Thursday. Open-mic nights, the whole thing.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

I'm more of an actor than a musician. I've made a little name for myself as an actor, but I also front this band. We have some great players out here, and we've found a little niche with L.A. Hootenanny.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

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

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or open mic shows as possible to get experience. I sang for seven years before getting a record deal, and I was already loving what I was doing. I just got lucky and got discovered.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.

I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote songs every single day with whoever I could write songs with.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition.

My dad was a real working musician in the late '70s and early '80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and they would perform at like Madame Wong's and Whiskey A Go Go all the time.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

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

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmonton, but I definitely knew that music was what I was going to do with my life.

I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.

I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.