Kid Rock Quotes

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

Ultimately it's a blessing to be able to make music.

I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.