Trying Quotes

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.