Pursuing Music Quotes

Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.

I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.

Nothing's going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I'd still love to make music.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

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

I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just something that's always been around. I play saxophone and guitar. I'd definitely like to pursue it, and it's something I'd like to keep going, if not as a career, then as a hobby.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

I was working - just a regular working-class guy - but, at the same time, always aspired to do music.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.

I played with a few local bands in the West Country, where I grew up, but when I was 18, I moved to London, which at that time was probably the most exciting musical city in the world. I was supposed to be studying dentistry, but all the time I was looking for a band to join.