Evan Ross Quotes

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If it was Lady Gaga, I'd say: 'You're talented, and you've obviously got the goods... what the hell are you doing with your image? How can anyone take you serious?'

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.

I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.

I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'