Quotes About Livelihood

We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

I have always fought for farmers getting better prices.

I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who make their living in the beef world. Ranchers, primarily.

I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

You don't make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.

The goal of any farmer, after producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place to sell the year's crop.

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet.

I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.