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Daily Inspiration Quote by Katie Price

"I'm desperate to start a career in music"

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There’s a raw candor in “I’m desperate to start a career in music” that reads less like ambition than like a flare shot into the celebrity economy. Katie Price isn’t claiming she’s been quietly woodshedding songs for years; she’s naming the feeling that powers a lot of post-fame reinvention: urgency. “Desperate” does double duty. It’s honest about hunger, but it also preemptively softens judgment. If the music move flops, it wasn’t arrogance, it was need. If it lands, the narrative becomes grit over gatekeeping.

Coming from a model whose public persona has long been shaped by tabloids, reality TV, and relentless scrutiny, the line also functions as a bid for authorship. Music is a medium associated with authenticity, confession, and control of one’s voice - literally and culturally. For someone known primarily through images and headlines, pivoting to music is a claim to a different kind of legitimacy: not just being looked at, but being listened to.

The quote is also shrewdly calibrated for the attention marketplace. “Start a career” frames this as serious, not a novelty single; it asks to be evaluated as a worker, not a spectacle. Yet the subtext acknowledges how hard it is to outrun your own brand. Price’s desperation isn’t only to sing; it’s to reset the terms on which the public consumes her - from object of commentary to maker of product, from tabloid character to performer with a microphone and, ideally, the final word.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Price, Katie. (2026, January 15). I'm desperate to start a career in music. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-desperate-to-start-a-career-in-music-152535/

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Price, Katie. "I'm desperate to start a career in music." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-desperate-to-start-a-career-in-music-152535/.

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"I'm desperate to start a career in music." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-desperate-to-start-a-career-in-music-152535/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Katie Price (born May 22, 1978) is a Model from England.

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