Quotes About Perseverance

If you're not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.

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.

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

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

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

I didn't really want to give up music.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

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

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

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.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

There's music in everything, even defeat

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

I love the music business very much.

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.

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.

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 love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?