Quotes About Resilience

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.

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

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.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

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

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Let's face the music and dance.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.