Quotes About Perseverance

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it's always going to be there.

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

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.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

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 didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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

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.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

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.

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.