Quotes About Commitment

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

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

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

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.'

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

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

I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.

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.