Quotes About Resilience

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

You can't take the sky from me.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

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.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

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.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.