Quotes About Ambition

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

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.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

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.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Talent is only the starting point.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

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.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

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

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

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.