Vonda Shepard Quotes

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I love making music. That's what I love to do. So I don't feel like there's any need to take a break unless I want to.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music is for me.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.