Quotes About Determination

I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

If you believe, you will. If you don't, you won't.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Let's face the music and dance.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.