Wendy Whelan Quotes

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

My work is more to me than just music.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

Before dance came into my life, I don't really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I would not want to live if I could not perform. It's in my will. I am not to be revived unless I can do an hour of stand-up.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.

It's both exciting and scary, I feel my heart and skin when I receive a ball. Of course I'm excited and scared but those emotions make me feel alive.

I am in love with dance and my parents accept that gracefully.

When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.

I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.