Jose Gonzalez Quotes

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don't plan on music becoming my next career.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

I think I'm probably gonna quit music.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.

Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

I'd written songs since I was 16, but I never thought that I would be a musician full time.

Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.