RaeLynn Quotes

I want to be a country singer more than anything in the world.

I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.

I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.

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.

All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I always knew I wanted to be in a band.

You have different stages in your career where you have different things to prove. And early on, like most people who move to Nashville, I wanted to prove that I belonged here, that I belonged in this format, that I had a love for it.

I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.

I don't remember ever not wanting to be a country singer. Even as a little kid, that was my dream.

I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be rich and famous.

I would love to work with Pharrell one day. Like, my biggest dream.

I've been talking a lot about how music chooses you because you can pinpoint when you had the epiphany that, 'Wow, I really want to do this.' But there's no real rhyme or reason about choosing to be in this industry. It's one of those things where there is no real guarantee; there is no real rulebook to follow.

I always had a love for music, but I was watching 'Sister Act 2' with Lauryn Hill, and I heard her sing, and I was just like, 'Man, I want to do that.' The whole movie overall was an inspiration for me.

I stopped chasing the music dream back in '74.

I've been chasing music since I was 16.

I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

Signing with Fantasy is an absolute dream come true. It's such a blessing to work with a label that truly cares about the soul of the music and to be on the same roster as artists that I've looked up to for as long as I can remember.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.