Quotes About Music

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape.

Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He had come back to his old fraternity house, which was my new fraternity house. We met there and just kinda stayed in touch.

I'm in Atlanta all the time shooting and recording. That's why I stayed.

Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.

The first record we made in three days. We literally stayed up for three days making the first album. It was crazy, crazy, crazy for us to do that. We couldn't believe anyone would give us a record deal. I look back on that record fondly but with just the slightest bit of a cringe.

I learned to love bluegrass, but my first love stayed hard country.

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

I'm still trying to keep it original, staying true to my sound.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.

I feel like Prince's artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in 'Purple Rain.'

I'm never going to try 'Carpool Karaoke' in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey's one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.

Being the drummer of Fall Out Boy, and any other project I've ever done, is most importantly about playing for the music. Staying out of the way when it's needed and playing more when it makes sense.

Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.

If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take six frames off that shot. Hit the music cue right there.' I will drive everybody crazy if left to my own devices in that room. So I try to do everything I can by staying out of the way.

I take pride in lyrics. I take pride in music and staying on beat and being on key.

I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it up again.