Music Career Quotes

• I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Careers, Long, People

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• Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

  Jennifer Lopez

  Careers, Trying, Next

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• My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

  Shakira

  Careers, Has Beens

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• That's how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it never really started till I was like 30, when I started singing and writing my own songs, and that's when it really took off. But prior to that, I was just doing a bunch of covers.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Song, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• I've lost things bigger than my music career.

  Bobby Shmurda

  Careers, Lost Things, Bigger

  "Exclusive: Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel Give First Interview Since Plea Deal". Interview with Angel Diaz, www.complex.com. September 16, 2016.

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• I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

  John Newman

  Careers, Clubs, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.

  Tim McGraw

  Hurt, Successful, Guitar

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

  Michelle Shocked

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean

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• I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Mistake, Thinking, Judging People

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• I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.

  Troye Sivan

  Gay, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

  Corbin Bleu

  Careers, Singing, Able

  "New Corbin Bleu Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2007.

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• Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

  Jens Lekman

  Careers, Family And Friends, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

  Miriam Makeba

  Reflection, Careers, Albums

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• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  Ellie Goulding

  Heart, Careers, Get Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

  Paloma Faith

  Mean, Hands, Careers

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• You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

  Fred Durst

  Art, Careers, People

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• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Careers, Slowly But Surely

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• The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

  Pharrell Williams

  Odds, Careers, Attributes

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

  Jack Black

  Dark, Careers, Age

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• I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

  Neal Schon

  Sports, Careers, Early 20s

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• I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

  Lance Reddick

  Careers, Acting, Helping

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  Taylor Swift

  Years, Careers, Choices

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• I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.

  Juan Gabriel

  Believe, Humility, Careers

  "The Ballad of Juan Gabriel : After a disadvantaged childhood, the singer-songwriter grew to become Mexico's biggest pop star. Now he gets as much pleasure from helping the orphanage he started as he does singing and hearing others do his songs". Interview with Enrique Lopetegui, articles.latimes.com. July 25, 1993.

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• Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

  Brittany Murphy

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Careers, Creative, Musician

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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