Business Quote by Marvin Hamlisch

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

— Bryan Ferry

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know…

— Shura

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

— Miguel Ferrer

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

— Danny Strong

A lot of people in show business don't know what I'm capable of doing.

— Mariette Hartley

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

— Gustav Mahler

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

— Cole Swindell

I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.

— Vantile Whitfield

I just remember always wanting to make things. That was what was really interesting to me, but I had no career goal in sight.…

— Ramy Youssef