Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!
So little of what could happen does happen.
Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
City people live the city. We live in L. A. , New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen
To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.
You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.
I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
Have the passion and the magic will happen
Music is the highest art form. I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle. It took a lot of time and effort for me, whereas a lot of my peers and other people seemed to have a much easier relationship to it. But I profoundly love music, and I still dream that I might one day try to write some new songs and record something - just for myself, to see what would happen.
I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as opposed to just sit down one day and then turn it on like a flick of a switch and expect everything to happen.
Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.