Quotes About Dedication

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

Music's another big love of mine.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

I got into music when I was 12, 13.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

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

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.