Tracy Chapman Quotes

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I really didn't think I was going to make records to where I make a living out of it.

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

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

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.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

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.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.

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

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

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

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

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

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

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

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.