"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."

-- Joni Mitchell

#Writing Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Frustrated Quotes

“There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.”
“For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong..”
“Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.”
“My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.”
“Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value”
“Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.”

Source : "Yankees' Giambi Tells Major League Baseball to Apologize for Drug Problems". www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2007.
“I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.”
“We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.”

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