James Hetfield Quotes

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

I need to work to support my family.

My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I make a good living doing what I do.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.