Quotes About Determination

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

If you will it, it is no dream

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.