Adam Levine Quotes

I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.

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.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

I am completely invested in my music - committed to it full time.

But when I discovered music, I knew that that's what I wanted to do in my life and I just jumped in all the way and pursued my dreams as a musician.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

I am never going to give music up.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

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'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

I've spent my life playing music.