John Hawkes Quotes

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.

A stadium tour would be amazing - that's definitely one of my goals. Just to keep putting out real, honest music that people can really relate to and connect with.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

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I don't make as many records as other people do because I prefer the live side of it - and my records are so big that they keep me touring for years upon years and years.

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I toured with Skrillex, did an HBO commercial with Diplo. In the hip hop movement, I was the first artist Travis Scott ever featured with before he blew up. I had the songs with Chris Brown and Tyga. I've worked with some of the biggest artists in the world.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.