Elijah Wood Quotes

What can I say? I'm just a relevant dude. It's just natural. My hunger's still there. I still keep my ear to the streets. I record every song like it's my last. I just love music. I'm blessed.

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

All I do is music; that's my sport.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the first place and if they're performers - this is a simplification, but a lot of them are trying to win a competition and play more accurately, or better, or more beautifully, whatever can be measured, than somebody else.

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.