Music Career Quotes:

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

- Malik Bendjelloul

topic: Careers, Music Career, Slowly But Surely

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

- Shakira

source: Source: www.viva-press.com

topic: Careers, Music Career, Has Beens

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

- Sophie Ellis Bextor

topic: Careers, Long, People, Music Career

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

topic: Careers, Trying, Next, Music Career

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

source: Source: www.hamptons.com

topic: Song, Writing, Careers, Music Career

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

- Bobby Shmurda

topic: Careers, Lost Things, Bigger, Music Career

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Careers, Clubs, Want, Music Career

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

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

topic: Hurt, Successful, Guitar, Music Career

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

topic: Mean, Careers, Sailing, Sailboat, Edge Of The World

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

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Judging People, Music Career

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

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Gay, Successful, Thinking, Gay Guy, Music Career

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

- Corbin Bleu

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

topic: Careers, Singing, Able, Music Career

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

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Careers, Family And Friends, Needs, Music Career

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

- Miriam Makeba

topic: Reflection, Careers, Albums, Music Career

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Heart, Careers, Get Better, Music Career

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

topic: Mean, Careers, Hands, Balancing Act, Music Career

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

topic: Art, Careers, People, Music Career

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

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

topic: Odds, Careers, Attributes, Music Career

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

topic: Dark, Careers, Age, Dark Ages, Music Career

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

- Neal Schon

topic: Sports, Careers, Music Career

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

- Lance Reddick

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

topic: Careers, Acting, Helping, Music Career

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

topic: Years, Careers, Choices, Music Career

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

source: "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.

topic: Believe, Humility, Careers, Music Career

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

- Brittany Murphy

topic: Thinking, Careers, Acting, Music Career

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

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

topic: Careers, Creative, Musician, Music Career

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

- Pharoahe Monch

source: Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

topic: Careers, Want, Savvy, Time Spent, Music Career

Getting to play the part of Selena was life-changing for me, i got to immerse myself in her life, got to know her family, her home, her culture ... every part of her story. It was a special time in my life both professionally and personally. Playing her not only opened doors for me in the film world, but it inspired me to start my own music career. In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't had that experience.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Life, Music, Home, Special Times, Opened Doors