John Tesh Quotes

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

I'd rather make music than tour.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

You do need money to make a good demo; you do need a bit of financial support.

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.

For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

Money is a resource for me and it is needed to make music.

We really hated being in a band. The joy for us and why we slipped nicely and neatly into it was because we didn't need a band anymore. We became a duo because of technology.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

I love the studio. I love writing and producing both for us and for other people.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

We're always recording music, writing songs.

I think of the Tycho sound as something separate from the band. I think the methodology and approach to production I use on the Tycho records can be applied to a lot of things. But from a performance and songwriting perspective, yes, Tycho is a live band.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.

There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.