Obie Trice Quotes

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

All I do is make music.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I care about writing music and playing my music.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Music is what I do naturally.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.