Gavin DeGraw Quotes
"I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Action, May)
"I love to play music."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Love, Music, Play)
"I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on."
- Gavin DeGraw
"I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Music, Country, Country music)
"I like to do the splits onstage."
- Gavin DeGraw
"I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: People)
"I'm like a junkie for writing."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Writing)
"I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Family, Time, Attention)
"So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Play)
"I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Music, Soul, Listening)
"So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Women, First)
"I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Time, Open)
"I don't take my clothes off in my videos."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Clothes)
"I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on."
- Gavin DeGraw
"I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Popular, Song, Writer, Writing)
"I can do a gig without an instrument."
- Gavin DeGraw
"So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Dating, Work, Now)
"So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Success, Failure, Expectations)
"Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: People)
"My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Dad, Guitar, Play, Want)
"It's not my goal to be a famous actor."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Goal, Actor, Famous)
"I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Success, Ego)
"I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Want)
"The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Love, Houses)
"There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Destruction)
"But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful."
- Gavin DeGraw
"We have a George Foreman grill on the bus."
- Gavin DeGraw
"When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Car)
"When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: War)
"When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: People, Pressure, Want)
"Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Women, First)
"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Guitar)
"I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal."
- Gavin DeGraw
(Related: Achievement, Feeling)