Julien Baker Quotes

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I don't intend to stop making music.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

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.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.