Flume Quotes

I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.

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.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

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.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

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.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.

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

I was a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in bar bands. I was an old man of 32 when I made my first album.

When I was younger and had made the decision to make a career in music, becoming famous was something that I dreamt about.

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.

I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.