Professional Music Quotes

Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I didn't think it would be possible for me to do music professionally. I was afraid to speak up and say I wanted to become a musician.

I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

I'm desperate to start a career in music.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.

I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

I wish I could be a professional singer.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

Everything I do is music-related.

I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager. I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.