Rudolf Bing Quotes

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I think I definitely would have ended up in some kind of show business. I was very interested in music when I was younger. This was back when Crosby, Stills and Nash were around.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when I do them, it does puts me back in touch with the people who go to movies. I do these shows just to stay in touch with them.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

It's sort of a cyclical thing on the road, where you can be very tired one day and sick of being in the band, and then you have a great show and you feel completely revitalized. There are people that quit bands because they can't take the road. But, personally, I love it. I get a little tired sometimes, but it's good work if you can get it.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Only sick music makes money today.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!