Jeremy Camp Quotes

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

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!'

I've been playing since I was a teenager, and I put out a few albums when I was younger. When 'Crazy Heart' took off, it gave me another reason to get into music in a more serious fashion.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

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.

At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

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

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

I actually always wanted to end up somewhere in music, I just didn't know what.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

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 set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.