Quotes About Aspiration

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

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 am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

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

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.