Diplo Quotes

I don't think that there's any shame at all in doing what you have to do in order to survive, to make money while you continue to pursue your dreams.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.

I told my parents I wanted to move to New York City and be an actress when I was around seven or eight.

Coming from a middle class background, I faced a lot of hardships during my initial years in Mumbai. I did not have much money and had to sing jingles and bhajans to survive. But those years taught me that a singer should be versatile.

Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world, that is a dream come true.

My motivation is to keep fighting, to keep putting food on my family's table, keep making a living off of boxing. That's my motivation.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

Slow business is an interesting area because it's taking into consideration the reality that we have to make a living.

'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.

I started travelling doing shows everywhere to make people feel like a sense of New Orleans wherever they may be.

I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.