Mark Foster Quotes

The fact that music is my first love and that after almost two decades, the love has grown every year... I'm truly thankful for that and want to always show my appreciation to those who keep me motivated and inspired.

Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

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

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

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.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

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.

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

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

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.

I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.