Quotes About Struggle

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

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'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.