Yolanda Adams Quotes

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I want to make money playing guitar.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I have always known that I wanted to be a singer and I knew that meant sacrificing some things for my dream. When I am home I hang out with my friends and go to dances, so I try and partake in some of the activities that I miss out on.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.