Armin van Buuren Quotes

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

I'm lucky I actually make a living making music.

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

Whether you're a DJ, whether you a rapper, whether you a producer, take it seriously. This is an occupation - you can get paid - don't expect to blow up overnight, and appreciate when you do get paid any type of money, appreciate it.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

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

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

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.

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

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

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.