Buck Owens Quotes

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

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

We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best.

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.

Music doesn't have to be fancy. I work hard and enjoy the fact that people want to come to my shows. That's simple, but I'm pretty blue-collar about it.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.