Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning. ”

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life. ”

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there. ”

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from. ”

I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through. ”

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying. ”

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ”

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. ”

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ”

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ”