Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

Singing has always been my big passion and I would love to be able to go to the U.S. and perform more.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

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

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.