Quotes About Livelihood

Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.

It has to be good to live in Singapore because otherwise, nobody will stand for it.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived on a ranch. They never knew what it was to milk a cow, to birth a calf, to shoe a horse. I've lived all that.

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

A lot of people don't understand that refugees especially, are fleeing situations that are affecting their livelihood and their children's livelihood.

In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families.

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

I'm at the barn six days a week.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

I love touring. If I could tour every day of my life, I would. It's my favorite thing to do.

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

It's always good to have your fan base and to continue to do what you love to do and making a living and seeing the people and travel and do everything, it's always a great thing for me.

Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable.

I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in.