Gregory Porter Quotes

I'm very thankful to San Diego for the musical opportunities it gave me.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

I started writing songs at 17.

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I think it was 37 years that I did music.

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills.

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.