Musical Commitment Quotes

I'm not committed to putting myself up for a blues guitarist, even though I love playing the blues.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

I gave my life for Styx and I'm really very proud of it and I didn't want to perform that music and screw it up.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

I've always felt that where Priest has been able to get to, it's been down to discipline, our real love and commitment to making the best music that we can make, and never forgetting our fan base.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.

I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I know that I'm with the best people I can be, and my arsenal of sounds and songs and tracks is as good as it could possibly be. Don't be in a band unless you feel that.