Quotes About Struggle

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!

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

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.