“People have no idea how hard it is to be a musician and to keep the dream alive.” – Frederico7

“This whole city is running on live music.” – Bandleader

“We love Austin, we love the city. There are so many things, a lot of opportunities for work.” – Eliud Garcia

“There’s thousands of projects and there’s thousands of performers and we’re all great and we all love doing what we’re doing and we’re all trying to get to that next level.” – Taylor Turner

“The artists in our own community don’t really feel [like they’re] any sort of priority. You want to feel like you have an opportunity to be a part of that buzz.” – Just Jim

“Something needs to change. And it needs to affect the bottom line of our musicians and industry workers.” – Doug Leveton

“My dream is that every Friday, every school in this country has a musician playing for the kids.” – Bandleader

“Who [are] the players are in town who are doing a good job of serving musicians. Can we bolster them?” – Rachel Blair

“The main thing is to not get so caught up in finding the one right thing. Let’s pilot ideas.” – Rachel Blair

“If we want Austin to be the live music capital of the world, what do we want tourists seeing?” – Robert Riggio

“How am I going to make this happen?” – Rapper