I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White
Related I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I... BARRY WHITE You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. SAMUEL PEPYS I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. SEBASTIAN BACH If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be. KASEY CHAMBERS Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laugh... SYLVIA EARLE My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. COUNTEE CULLEN My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. ESA-PEKKA SALONEN My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way ... VALERIE JUNE Music is my life. ROBERT ILER The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've... AL YANKOVIC I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics. ROMEO SANTOS Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to ... BOB GELDOF When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren... DRAKE My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not ... J. LOREN WINCE Music is my life. It is sacred. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN My mind is killing me” — The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found ... CAROLINE SHAW As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul an... ERIC WHITACRE Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career i... RONNIE SPECTOR Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people ... A. R. RAHMAN I'm at the end of my career now, and every game I play I try to take it all in. I've played way long... JASON MARSHALL I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know. YANDEL Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gra... IDRIS ELBA As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. FAMKE JANSSEN teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards th... BEBE REXHA I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doin... DAVID ARCHULETA There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ... DAN REYNOLDS My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I dou... SAM SMITH I do not believe in file sharing or illegally downloading music. I pay for all my music. I listen to... JOE AVILA I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classica... YANN TIERSEN In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's jus... LA INDIA My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passion... OLIVIA WILLIAMS Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the m... GERARD WAY I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business! DWAYNE HICKMAN The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did... ALAN GREENSPAN ... on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being... STELLA GIBBONS I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. MIRIAM MAKEBA When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love tha... VILLE VALO Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'... BRYAN GREENBERG Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to h... FIONA APPLE Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN pudding.... DALLY SALAD I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimate... DWIGHT HENRY I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't ... KYP MALONE If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car... DAMON HILL If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere. DARIUS RUCKER Music is my life - acting's just a hobby. STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. LENNY KRAVITZ I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR Singing songs that make you slit your wrists GERARD WAY I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and m... LISA MARIE PRESLEY And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression. CARMINE COPPOLA I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for... RACHEL STEVENS I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my... KATE BUSH About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l... PATRICK O'BRIAN Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their... RONNIE JAMES DIO Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the musi... TAYLOR HACKFORD Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brothe... AL JARDINE I'm British, and I like to do some British music, ... That's something I can bring to the orchestra,... HUW EDWARDS I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers. BIRDY My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t... DWIGHT YOAKAM The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this c... ALBERT PUJOLS I don't understand how they can look the other way and say, 'It's not my wife or any of my concern o... ISLAM FISH The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else f... TRENT REZNOR If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car... DAMON HILL All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. JOSE MUJICA I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tr... ERIK HASSLE No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes wer... JOHNNY MATHIS Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. CASS MCCOMBS I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and... ELLE FANNING I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help pe... FANTASIA BARRINO The way that I approach my entire racing career is to do it right. WILLY T. RIBBS I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat. FUTURE For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around m... SCOTTY MCCREERY When I first started in the music business, I became estranged from my family and friends. Now I can... CHERYL JAMES I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s... ZEDD I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education. DAVID COOK My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes. STEPHAN JENKINS I don't chase my dreams in music. Music is my reality. VALERIE ROSE STERRETT I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given m... EDDI READER I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. BARRY MANILOW I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very ind... DAVID FRIEDMAN I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. ... LADY GAGA My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my mu... CHARLI XCX I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own ... LEON BRIDGES Music is love, love is music, music is my life and I love my life. Thank you and goodnight. AJ MCLEAN The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior wa... MICHAEL CERA No matter where the road may take me, I know for sure that music is always there for me. And even if... MYRAMUSIC Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. GUNTHER SCHULLER There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar ... PAULINA RUBIO I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pur... CARA DELEVINGNE I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each ot... RANDY BACHMAN
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