"At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away."

-- Janis Ian

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”
“I am attracted to myths.”
“Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

Source : "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
“Man is what he believes â€“ believe in yourself”
“I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.”

Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
“A lot of mantras that I use in my daily life to get through - to move through the world in peace and harmony with myself - find their way into the music that I make. Many of the lines that people seem to be drawn to in my music really come from these mantras that I repeat to myself to try and move through the world in more thoughtful, comfortable way.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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