Cynical Quote by Darren Hayes

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career.…

— Kaskade

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted…

— Dawn Angelique

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing…

— Billy Squier

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel…

— Matthew Sweet

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left…

— Tweet

At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to…

— Jay IDK

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

There was a time when I thought I would try to pursue music professionally. But at the same time, I was also working on…

— Tim Russ

I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in…

— Jamie Cullum

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally.

— Jeff Lynne

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

— Pete Seeger