Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
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I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.
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I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
