Ronnie Hawkins Quotes

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

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.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Music is my first love and the thing that I feel extremely connected to. I feel like I still have a long way to go within that in terms of being able to perform and write songs. But, yeah, I really hope 'The Possession' opens doors for me to do more acting, because I really enjoyed it.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.