Quotes About Challenges

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.