Quotes About Career

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

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

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.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

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.'

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It's an extremely important part of what I am.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.