"The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a clichÃ© for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome."

-- Ben Sollee

#Art Quotes #Play Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2001). “A Ned Rorem Reader”, p.26, Yale University Press
“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.”
“It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.”
“Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.”
“The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.”

Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.”
“I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.”

Source : "St Vincent: 'I needed to know where the exits were'". Interview with Charlotte Richardson Andrews, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2011.
“Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.”

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