Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I'm a working musician, fortunately. I've worked on my craft, and I'm very fortunate I've been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It's not easy.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

I've never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That's why, when people say, 'Well what are roles you're dying to play?' I say, I don't even have such a list, because everything that's ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

The Guns N' Roses reunion didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

No Doubt is one of the groups that I think everybody listens to, man, and everybody loves Gwen Stefani.

What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.

I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.