Music Commitment Quotes

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere.

I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.

I won't join another band again.

We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I'd love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don't want them to look on 'American Idol' as the way to become famous.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

When you get in a band, you never consider the day it'll all just stop.

I've been talking a lot about how music chooses you because you can pinpoint when you had the epiphany that, 'Wow, I really want to do this.' But there's no real rhyme or reason about choosing to be in this industry. It's one of those things where there is no real guarantee; there is no real rulebook to follow.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

Honestly speaking, I am very hardcore when it comes to my music because at the end of the day the song that I am creating will remain forever.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.