Franz Liszt Quotes

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.

I put myself through college.

I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So then I got my birthday money up, and I bought my own. It was the most rebellious thing I've ever done.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.