Musical Endeavor Quotes

If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, 'If I'm going to sing, I'm going to have to do it solo.' Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.

All I ever wanted to do is make music.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

Static-X had a great run. We did everything we wanted to do and everyone wanted to do their own thing for a while.

We did everything we could to hold Pantera together and fought for it until the very end, and now that it's gone we're 100% focused on Damageplan.

Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I think the third record is the hardest one.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

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

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I love music - really a lot. That's why I do it. But mine just never makes it, to me. There's always something wrong with it, something I want to change. But I like that, because at least it keeps me looking, trying to find ways I can improve, which obviously are a lot.

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it's always terrible.

When you start in any band, I don't think you have any idea as to how long your particular journey is going to last. You really don't have a clue. I think that when you come together as musicians, that's the furthest thing from your mind.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I had an opportunity to make an album - that was a dream come true. I had to make sure that I could do it the best way I could, and at least at the end of it be very pleased with it and not regret anything. So that took a lot of concentration. Being isolated really helps with that.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

Even Nikki with Sixx:A.M., I wish you the best of luck.