Kaskade Quotes

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

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 DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

It's interesting because all I want to do is make music. I want to sit in my room, play the guitar, make beats, sing... And I have never made less music than when being a musician became my job.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I don't intend to stop making music.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.