Unpredictable Reception Quotes

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

You never know how your work is going to be received, and to have it be not just received by the people who wanted it or knew about it or our traditional fan base, which is pretty big, but also having it spill over to everybody who plays games, and then those people telling everybody else who doesn't play games - that's what it became.

When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but you don't know how everyone else is always going to react to what you put out there.

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.