Stephen Hough Quotes

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

I'm lucky I actually make a living making music.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I love the music business very much.

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.