Quotes About Recognition

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.