Quotes About Perseverance

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

What's interesting about a person without problems?

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

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.

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.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

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.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

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

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

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

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

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

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

For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.