Brad Paisley Quotes

Since I was about a little boy, I've always wanted to do music.

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

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.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I am following my dream. I've always loved music and believed in making music.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

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

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

Music is by no means something I was like, 'I'm going to make a career out of this!' It's the only thing I know how to do, so it was more like, 'I hope to God I can make a career out of this!'