Quotes About Dedication

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

I love music more than I love people.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

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.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.