#san

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer. ↗

— Judy Collins

#country #early #even #houses #i

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#apply #energies #first #growing #incessantly

My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career. ↗

— David Cone

#antique #because #big #bike #buddy

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#believe #could #dreamed #eagle #fly

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7. ↗

— Barbara Cook

#family #first #first time #got #i

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#passed #sang #she #songs #until

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. ↗

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#against #ancient #another #architecture #bangs