Kip Winger Quotes

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.

I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be rich and famous.

My hope for young bands, honestly, is that they do it because they love it, they do it because it's real.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

God-dang-it, country music is my heart.

I feel like that's so important, to enjoy my own music. Because if I'm not passionate about my music, then it's going to show to the fans.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

I grew a strong passion for music. The more I did the music thing it's like I saw myself going far with it. I believed in myself.