Quotes About Passion

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

My next baby will be my new record.

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

I started my own record label.

I'm not ruling out music forever. I'd love to do that, but if I ever did, I don't think it would be with a record label or anything like that. It might even look like me finding a band and kind of playing in bars.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

I'm not only a DJ. I run my own record label and I work out of my own productions.

I go to the local record store to buy my albums.

I'm the type, when I used to go to the record store I used to buy two or three copies of certain records so I've got a pretty large selection of a lot of 12 inches.

One of the most fun parts about my job is that when the music gets recorded live at the end of the project and real musicians play it, I still get goosebumps every single time.