I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional…

But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.

— Ankit Tiwari

“When I told Mark about Jordan, he agreed that an obsessive focus on the quality of what you produce is the rule in professional…

— Cal Newport

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

— Gregory Porter

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

— Pete Seeger

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

I try to do things the right way and try to be a professional.

— DeSean Jackson

I try to be professional and play all the games I can.

— Keylor Navas

I try to be professional and do my best, and that's it.

— Dusan Tadic

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

— Ben Affleck

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the…

— Zedd

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

I wanted the music to sound, like, made in Mexico. I wanted to connect to my roots.

— Natalia Lafourcade

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

— Rene Descartes