Quotes About Aspiration

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

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

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

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.

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.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

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

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

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

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