Rylan Clark-Neal Quotes

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now.

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.

I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.

I don't think I would participate in 'Eurovision,' but I would love to write a song for it. But it would have to be for Norway, obviously. Do it for my country.

As a private person, I am maybe more 'Eurovision' than Kasper Juul.

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

I love Sertab Erener with 'Everyway That I Can' - that was an absolute tune.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

With my Les Paul, I know I'm small. But I enjoy living anyway.

If you love music, than you can play music.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything."

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.