Gerald Clayton Quotes

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

Everything has always been so organic for me; I have no idea what I would be doing if it wasn't for music. Music forever!

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

Music never felt like a job.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

I truly never saw myself doing anything other than music. There was nothing else that brought me this much joy, but also this much frustration.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.