James Wolpert Quotes

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

I love the music business very much.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

What my whole object was is not to really sell records. I was trying to sell songs.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song. It's tough to do because there are so many great songwriters in Nashville, and I was lucky enough to get some songs recorded before I got my record deal.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.