Tom Smith

Tomorrow you’ll wish you had practiced harder today.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Play for the spiritual aspect, the emotion.

Music’s been around a long time, and there’s going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it’s a big record, that’s the frosting on the cake, but music’s the main meal.

A name doesn’t make the music. It’s just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Music is a verb.

My fans are the best in the world! They’ve grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I’m not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don’t last.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

I hear beauty and elegance combined with passion and fire.