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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career. -- Lance Reddick
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. -- Miriam Makeba
Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic. -- Brittany Murphy
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going. -- Neal Schon
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
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. -- Victoria Justice
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
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
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist. -- Victoria Justice
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. -- Alan Greenspan
Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro. -- Justin Timberlake
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
I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day. -- Clive Davis
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
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. -- Matisyahu
In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition. -- Justin Timberlake
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. -- Jason Mraz
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! -- Flea
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
When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career. -- Kat Edmonson
I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything. -- Olly Murs
I'm desperate to start a career in music. -- Katie Price
I've lost things bigger than my music career. -- Bobby Shmurda
Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I expect to make a career out of country music. -- Darius Rucker
My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily. -- Shakira
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. -- Alexander Borodin
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music. -- Mike McCready
My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career. -- Chet Faker
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline. -- Cliff Richard
Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me. -- Lana Del Rey
Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music. -- Kailash Kher
If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music. -- Cliff Martinez
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. -- Simon Cowell
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. -- Jon Secada
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. -- Ice Cube
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. -- John Williams
Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is. -- Rashida Jones
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time. -- Denis Leary
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career. -- Corbin Bleu
Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. -- Layne Staley
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. -- Layne Staley
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional. -- Mandy Moore
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough. -- Shawn Ashmore
I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better. -- Gin Wigmore
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12 -- Johnny Winter
Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. -- Eric Church
I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music. -- Jonny Lang
Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career. -- Kassie DePaiva
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career. -- Cory Trepanier
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. -- Skylar Grey
I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music. -- James Bay
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. -- Abigail Washburn
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. -- David Naughton
I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos. -- Sheri Moon Zombie
Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music. -- Ronnie Spector
Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it. -- Nigel Godrich
I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else. -- Skylar Grey
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. -- Aimee Mann
My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old. -- Leland Sklar
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff. -- Joe Perry
People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them. -- Dionne Warwick
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. -- Cassandra Wilson
Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. -- Gloria Gaynor
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity. -- Jewel
I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music. -- SonReal
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby. -- Chet Faker
I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music. -- Cakes da killa
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major. -- Charles Soule
When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again. -- Gary Wright
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business. -- Bing Crosby
I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living. -- Kevin Morby
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business. -- Ray Stevens
I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path. -- Julianne Hough
When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. -- Daniel Johnston
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business. -- Robert Fripp
Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character. -- Doseone
Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun. -- Mark Romanek
The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews. -- Shakira
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. -- Richard M. Nixon
The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world. -- Soulja Boy
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
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate. -- Valerie June
Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question. -- Anne Akiko Meyers
I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from. -- Jason Mraz
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become. -- Virginia Woolf
I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now. -- Leona Lewis
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
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
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
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
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

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