Jain Quotes

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I'm so grateful to be able to do music.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn't do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.

In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.

I don't feel like I'm putting records out because I have to. It's just my art and I love it.

Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't.

We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of success for us.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as a way to express myself.

You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.