Shawn Ashmore Quotes

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

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.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about 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.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

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

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

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

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

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 love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.