Kip Moore Quotes

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

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.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

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.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

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'm desperate to start a career in music.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

I've been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

I didn't move to Nashville with any inkling or dreams of getting a record deal. I didn't have those stars in my eyes. I just wanted to take a break, relax, and figure out songwriting.

When I left college, it broke my mom's heart, but I knew I had to be in Nashville. I knew that was the place you had to be in to become a better songwriter, and that's what I wanted to move there for and to ultimately get a record deal.

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.