Dan Deacon Quotes

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

I'm a professional musician.

All my life, I had loved music and been in choir, and I have a degree in music, but I never planned on doing it as a job. I had a realistic perspective on that. I thought maybe work at a church or be a teacher if you wanted to work in music.

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician first.

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

I don't intend to stop making music.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.