Toby Keith Quotes

Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.

Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Music is my hustle.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Composing is my life blood.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I could see no other way of doing something with my life apart from music.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

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.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.