Quotes About Persistence

Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.

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

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

If you will it, it is no dream

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.