Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

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.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

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

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play live. That's how you make a career these days.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.