Quotes About Pressure

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

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

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest ".

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

Ninja Mom's can't be all their called to be, if their so stressed out about how their going to pay their Mastercard bill

Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

People who pressure you usually deserve a "no". People who are patient with you usually deserve a "yes".

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.