Josh Groban Quotes

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I have never stopped playing music.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.