Jimmy Rushing Quotes

I like being by myself.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

I love being alone.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I love being by myself.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.