Quotes About Commitment

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.

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

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

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.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

All one's feeling goes into practicing exercises, many of which are set to music. Therefore, somehow dancing with boyfriends doesn't attract me.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.