Bishop Briggs Quotes

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

I think the main focus as a musician should be to play the music you love to play, and the rest is going to come naturally.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.