"Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much."

-- Dana Spiotta

#Artist Quotes #Luck Quotes #Shy Quotes

“I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.”
“Love is no assignment for cowards.”
“If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.”
“Sometimes I'll hear some music in my head or I'll go to the piano and mess around and come up with a tune, or be on the guitar and come up with some chords - or I'll come up with lines, or just some words, or just a sentence. It could be the title of a song. I do that all the time. I write titles of songs a lot. And sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, "Oh, this goes with that title".”
“You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.”
“I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.”
“You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is.”
“I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.”

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