Quotes About Endurance

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Music is your only friend until the end...

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

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

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

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

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

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

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 don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

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.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

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.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.