Quotes About Persistence

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.