James Vincent McMorrow Quotes

You've got to be happy, you have to do this thing [music] for the love. It's not like you go into music because it's going to make a lot of money. It's something you do... that's the thing. You got to accept all that hard work with it, too. And enjoy it, and love it.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

You can write music till you 70.

It is a great life, this life of music.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

The great love of my life is music.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.