"Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working."

-- Stephen De Staebler

#Pain Quotes #Artist Quotes

“But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.”
“Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.”
“Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.”
“I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.”
“I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.”
“I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.”
“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.19, Wesleyan University Press
“I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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