James Wolpert Quotes

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.

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

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

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 make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

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