Quotes About Resilience

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

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

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.

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave.

There's music in everything, even defeat

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

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.

I am more than what they say I am.

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 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.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.