Quotes About Livelihood

Si tienes vocación para la pintura, tarde o temprano vas a pintar y es mejor que sea temprano. ¿Por qué tiene que ser en París o Buenos Aires? Sólo necesitas disciplina. Es como el piano, ¿sabes? Rara vez da para vivir, pero hay que intentarlo», argumentó Roser.

I have cats, dogs, monkeys and ducks at home - it's like a mini zoo.

Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.

As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

Emotionally, I am attached to TV because it has given me my bread and butter.

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy with the way they are on record, and I get to hear them be reinterpreted by the live band? That's kind of the icing on the cake. It's the best.

My father was a musician, a songwriter and he played at bars and restaurants and my mom was a secretary for an insurance company.

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.

I never thought that I would be able to make singing a career. It's great that my passion is also the source of my bread and butter.

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.