Bootsy Collins Quotes

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I honestly don't want to act anymore.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.