Jacob Whitesides Quotes

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became a singer because I was too stupid to learn how to play an instrument, I guess.

I've been loving music all my life.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity to be current, to listen to the Hozier album, to be early in recognition of a Lorde and spending time with her and Miguel, the pleasure of seeing new talent erupt... I love it.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.

Music - some people just don't know that part of me.

I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be rich and famous.

I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.

I'm just so grateful to be a part of BABYMETAL because without this opportunity, I wouldn't have had a deeper connection to music!

I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.