Quotes About Livelihood

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

When the workers, whose only pleasure was sleeping, crawled into their beds, they slumbered like cattle.

Even if one percent of the population has been only as good as they project themselves to be good through social media, then everyone in this world would have enough avenues and resources to earn livelihood.

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of this state.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

When I was given my first gig, and I had no real appetite for a career, I just worked to get money so I could live!

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.

I've got the best gig in the world.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I enjoy doing my gigs and I keep my hand in by putting records out now and again. You can't really get over the buzz of playing live though.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

Playing gigs is what it's about for me.

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?