Sam Hunt Quotes

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

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

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything that went on camera was what I intended to go on camera.

I think of me being a painter eventually.

I know when to have fun, but when it comes to my music, I'm really serious about my career.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.

I am fierce, yes, but I'm serious about music.

As an artist, I will always give art more importance and preference than pure entertainment.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.