Musical Drive Quotes

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the guitar. By the time we were in ABBA, the music was the only important thing.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

Once we went into the basement and learned a song, we felt successful. Then we learned two songs, and then we got a gig, and on and on - and that's the way musicians think. I don't know about other people - I mean, I don't know about all musicians either - but some are more driven than others.

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 would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Our dad was always like, 'Look, if you're musical, if you live and breathe music and want to play an instrument, that's not something that's on me to put on you. If you're passionate, you will come to my studio every day after school and watch me work because you can't live without it.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

I never wanted to stop making music.

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

I am a deeply competitive person when it comes to music.

I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

I've always had music in my blood.

Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's what the greats in music do. The music is in great hands as long as he's making it.

Music is my passion. I've always been musically driven and musically inclined. I play the keyboard a little bit. I love listening to music and discovering music. That's my love, but I'm not a rapper at all.