“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.” ImportantDreamKidsWantedSchoolMinesIndustryDegreesMusicianPrioritiesMassiveMusic Industry Author:Emeli Sande
“I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.” DreamWalksKnowingMusicianCaliforniaSunsetSunshineBoulevardSunset Boulevard Author:Noel Gallagher
“I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.” DoeCountryDreamFightingEnjoyMusician Author:Juanes
“The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.” IdeasDreamChanceStepsAudienceMajorsMusicianMusic IsOnlineAmerican DreamSubmitDreams Come True Author:Ali Partovi
“I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.” DreamWantedIndustryMusicianEntertainmentDrummerGuitaristEntertainment Industry Author:Israel Broussard
“There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.” PeopleKnowsTryingFirstsWellsArtI CanDreamActorsSilenceAcceptingMusicianCriticsPassionateDo The BestCan't ChangeJudgmental Author:Jared Leto
“I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!” ThinkingWayShouldYearsBelieveHeartSoulDreamBodyLightFightingLeftLosesStruggleYouthGeniusWasteMusicianMurderBreadLoftyBest YearHeart BreakingYears Of Life Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.” IfsThinkingGivingMeanFeelingsDreamEyeCan DoCreativityPhotographyMusicianPhotographerPainterAtmosphereWithin YouOpen Eyes Author:Ernst Haas
“It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.” ThinkingHeartDreamSongPassionLevelsHappenedPossibilityFootballMy HeartOne DayMusicianThirdsMy PassionPlaying Football Author:Vance Joy
“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.” WantKindSaidShowsDreamWantedGrowsGrowing UpStageMinesIndustryMusicianDoctorsEntertainmentWhat You WantLawyerGradesRapperFadesSuperstarFade AwayEntertainment IndustryEighth Grade Author:Lilly Singh
“In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a dream," to be corny about it. It's implied with eyes wide open, rather than asleep. But I'm not a philosopher to explain myself. I wish I could. Maybe that's why I'm a musician.” DreamEyeLife IsWishMusicianPhilosopherWideCornyUsageI Had A DreamImpliedEyes Wide OpenOld English Author:Tom Verlaine
“What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.” LooksDreamYoungMusicianExcitingInchesChromeCymbals Author:Neil Peart
“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.” TryingMindI CanFactsDreamAbilityBecomingLimitsMusicianSingingInstrumentsTraveledLinkedOpen Mind Author:Rokia Traore
“I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.” ThinkingTwoDreamPoetMusicianAspectUnionsSeriesConclusionCollaborationHarmoniousConcessionsSynthesisApproximation Author:Arthur Honegger
“I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.” DreamPlansMusicianAbandonedReplacedPriesthood Author:Jonathan Cain
“New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true. Joey McIntyre is great. He is a real actor too; he is just not a famous boy-band musician.” TwoRealDreamKidsActorsHouseBoysHugeBandMusicianSeasonsBlockDreams Come TrueLifelongJoeyBoy BandsFull House Author:Andrea Barber
“Doin' music, musicians and artists, we have the advantage of doin' something that is our passion. At the same time it's fun, and it's like a dream to other people, and live off it, feed yourself off of it. 'Cause it's hard, you know what I"m sayin'? You really gotta grind and you really gotta love and enjoy what you do, if you're gonna make it. 'Cause if you don't believe in yourself, if you don't got people believin' in you, people aren't gonna buy it.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveHardDreamArtistPassionFunCausesEnjoyMusicianAdvantageDon't BelieveBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouGrind Author:Tyga
“My aspirations and dreams keep evolving. I think dreams evolve and I want to become a better songwriter. I want to do more collaboration within my genre and I want to continue to make records. I want to just keep getting stronger as a musician and make movies.” ThinkingWantDreamRecordsMusicianStrongerEvolveGenreAspirationCollaborationSongwritersGetting Stronger Author:Morgan James
“Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating manual and do what we were told, but today the world is too complex and fast. Today it's all about real-time innovation and creativity. Individuals may get hired based on their resumes, but they'll get promoted and reach their dreams based on their ability to create. In that context, being a jazz musician was the best MBA I could have ever received.” WorldDreamTodayPastIndividualAbilityCreativityMusicianInnovationJazzJazz MusicImprovisationJazz Musician Author:Josh Linkner
“My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work exactly - but just this sort of vague aspiration to start some kind of website where people send in their stories or poems, and me or perhaps some other people turn that into music. And then by the end of the year we make a record and actually put it out. Like a band, but the band is actually a combination of the musician and the fan. I think that's a very 21st-century way of doing it.” PeopleThinkingKindDreamMusicianAspirationWebsite Author:Eef Barzelay
“People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're living a dream, so everyone who's observing it from the outside can't really empathize with how much work it is because you're fortunate. And it's a kind of competition with yourself to stay away from all of the excess, whether it's booze or drugs or just the late nights with the addiction to watching the sun rise in some weird part of the world. But when you meet the other musicians, there's generally a spiritual exhaustion that you connect with.” PeopleWorldKindDreamSpiritualNightDrugMusicianCompetitionAddictionObservingExhaustionLate NightSun Rise Author:Kevin Drew
“I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.” MadeDreamFeltExampleMusicianUniversityMade It Author:Eddie Vedder