Top 33 Music Career Quotes

I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn’t even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.

I was a little hesitant to do ‘Love & Hip-Hop’ because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.

I think it’s really cool how J. Lo’s been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That’s something I strive for.

A professional music career goes in starts and stops. Around 2000 I was doing a Broadway show and that was some real good energy.

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

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.

I didn’t want to do two years in the regular army, my music career was just getting started. So, I joined the Guard where, after going to weekend meetings, you’d do six months of active duty, with three months of basic training and three months of on-the-job training.

It’s weird. I went so far away from music that I had to re-invent music again. I had to come back to music. I had to put music with an agenda down and at least write for my son, write to keep writing, but the idea of having a music career had to go away for a while.

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

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

I’ve had a wonderful, longstanding relationship with VH1 over the course of my music career, and I couldn’t be more excited to enter into this new chapter as resident host for ‘Big Morning Buzz.’

No, I don’t regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.

We even have a music career. Our song ‘Hold On,’ charted on Billboard. I mean, we don’t have aspirations to tour with Justin Bieber but we have a lot of different interests and talents.

There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.

About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

I had no backup plan. I wanted to have a music career since I was 5 years old. I know that might be hard to believe, but it’s true.

Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn’t until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.

I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.

Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton’s sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole ‘nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

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.

I’ve written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don’t know a lot about.

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return – a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It’s just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career.

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I’ve always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I – I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.

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.

I’ve always had a plan for my music career.

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

It’s like, ‘Oh, great, drag queens can excel!’ – but then the ceiling is so low. You’re only allowed on the first floor; you’re not allowed to go play with the big boys upstairs. Even RuPaul, who’s a massive success, has been limited to where her music career can take her.

I had to focus on my music career. But tennis has always been a passion.

It was a major turning point in my career when Anup Jalota invited me to accompany him on his various world tours. I was in two minds whether to pursue a music career in Mumbai or to stay back in Calcutta. Being the only son, it was a tough decision.

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people’s perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with – the people who don’t care about my music career at all.