Music as a Career Quotes

That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve - I'm a music guy, you know? That's my occupation.

Originally my entire goal with music was for it to be my job. When I sit down to make a beat, I wanna know that I'm gonna get paid from it, and that I can pay my bills and still have money left over to be a person.

I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.

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

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.

I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.

I love making music. That's what I love to do. So I don't feel like there's any need to take a break unless I want to.

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

You can write music till you 70.

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

I'm a musician because I love it and it's supposed to be fun.

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

I can't see myself doing anything else. I feel like I can touch more people with music.

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

I'm not very good at a lot of things that aren't music. This is the only thing that I love doing, so, like, why wouldn't I make this my whole life?

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.