Scott Ian Quotes

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I never thought of myself as successful. I have just done what I love to do. I appreciate that I can continue working as a musician every day.

I think the main focus as a musician should be to play the music you love to play, and the rest is going to come naturally.

I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in the pub. I'd much prefer to be playing live and playing the piano - playing is one of the most enjoyable things I do and I live for it. So it's very rare that I'd not be up for it. I'm very lucky to have something that I love so much; I don't know what I'd do without it.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

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.

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

I love what I do, and I think I've appreciated it more throughout the years, but just to keep on traveling, keep on doing shows, and hopefully making better albums. That's always my goal.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

I love what I do. I love playing music.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.