Quotes About Expectation

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.