Teddy Thompson Quotes

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

Obviously you'd always be happy to have another tour on the side, earning extra money, but for most of the players I think we're all pretty happy.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

I'm lucky that I enjoy playing live; it's my passion to do that. There's certain artists that never want to play live. They just want to be in the studio. Good luck, because there is no income.

I had a five-year plan to get to 500-seat venues and tour by ourselves and fill a room everywhere we go. I figured we could make a living off that. As long as you buy nothing stupid, you'll be OK.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?