Quotes About Livelihood

I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their checks. But ultimately, it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

You just look upon life as an annoying interruption to ranching.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants, and I played four nights a week to make ends meet.

I have loved doing live shows and that gives me a pump.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

I can't flip a burger, I can't do anything. All I know how to do is sing. I've been blessed to be able to make a living doing what I love.

I lay 11-10 because I know the bookie needs that 5 percent that I give him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to make a living and go down to Florida with his family.

We need healthy people to have a flourishing community, economy and way of living.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

I don't want San Francisco to be just a place where people just move for opportunities.

I've got a full life.

My life is rich in experiences and opportunities and I am living it to the fullest.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

Fundamentally, I do a job at which I can make a living and I like it. That's the bottom line. I still really enjoy it. I like getting up and going to work. I've spent my whole adult creative life doing this.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.