Jack Vance Quotes

If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

I've lost before, you need great people around you, your family, people giving you positive energy.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

Perseverance brings good luck.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.

The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

Make way for the positive day.

You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.

I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.