"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living."

Music, Time, Giving, Living

48

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living."

Exlpore more Music quotes

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Music, World

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Music, Day, Dream, Dreams, Life

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Music, Healing, Emotion, Creativity

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Music, Truth, Happiness, Power, Inspirational

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Soul, Feelings, Deep

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Music, Art, God

"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Music, Life, Meaning, Joy

"He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase."

Michael Feinstein, American Singer

Music, People, Care, Name

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Music, Jazz, Humor, Truth

Explore more quotes by Mark Edwards

"Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme."

Focus

"I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville."

Fun

"They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there."

Content

"At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time."

Money

"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

Attention

"I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show."

Music

"To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce."

War

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."

Music

"I have always abhorred the business end of music."

Business

"Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul."

Life