Steven Price Quotes

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

I want to make money playing guitar.

I have come to Kolkata to make music, but I can't expect one director to give me work all the time.

People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

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

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I really wanna get my paws on scoring a film.

I'm a professional musician.

All my life, I had loved music and been in choir, and I have a degree in music, but I never planned on doing it as a job. I had a realistic perspective on that. I thought maybe work at a church or be a teacher if you wanted to work in music.

I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.

My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music.

I used to sing as a living while I was at university.

I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician first.