Donna Summer Quotes

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

Your life can change in a moment, depending if the ball goes in.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.