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Quotes About Living

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
~ Bruce Springsteen
It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.
~ Bob Lefsetz
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
~ Khalil Gibran
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
~ Peter Gabriel
My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.
~ Varg Vikernes
...music is the living God in our bosoms.
~ Richard Wagner
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
~ Bobby Vinton
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.
~ Amy Jo Johnson
Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.
~ Dan Deacon
I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?
~ Doc Watson
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
~ Walt Whitman
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
~ Ajahn Brahm
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
~ Waris Dirie
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
~ Murray Bookchin
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
~ Tilda Swinton
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
~ Paul Cezanne
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.
~ Lebbeus Woods
To be awake is to be alive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
~ Syd Barrett
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
~ Ernest Holmes
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
~ Plato
I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
~ Penelope Cruz
There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
~ Nicole Kidman