Quotes About Dedication

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Music is my biggest passion and Ive just been obsessed with it. Like, always.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.