“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsCareersAudienceRocksOriginalsFolksTrackGenreAbandonSixtyMuseBeatenListening To Music Author:Dar Williams
“I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.” WayDifferentLastsFilmCareersPathRocksLuckyDirectorsDifferent WaysTurning PointsLear Author:Arjun Rampal
“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsBigsPayAttentionCareersRocksDown AndNoisePay AttentionPunkGesturesRelaxedUp And DownPunk RockCockroaches Author:Nicolas Cage
“For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.” TogetherSongCareersRocksBandLoudRock Bands Author:Michael Cerveris
“Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.” StarsCareersRocksAstronautPolicemenFireman Author:Trent Reznor
“I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.” YearsStillsFeltCareersFourRocksMissingCollegeBandEuropeMovedShipsFour YearsIrelandRock BandsIndie Rock Author:Bill Watterson
“In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.” MenHas BeensFactsCareersRocksBrokenMountainRiversRapidsSluggish Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels