John Tesh Quotes

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.

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

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

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 never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

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.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.

I don't really have music goals. It's just a huge field I want to dedicate my life to.

When I was 11, I decided that music was what I wanted to pursue as a career.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

I was a musician first of all.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do.

I'm really passionate about music. I do love acting, but music is the end goal for me.

Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.

It's very tempting for certain generations to say, 'Well, I just want to be in a band, and I want to be a rock star,' or whatever. That's not what it's about. Firstly, you've got to be in it for the love and the passion that you have for the music, and then you take it from there.

My son is a professional musician now.