#tryin

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless. ↗

— Ryan Cabrera

#anything #dumb #endless #get #i

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. ↗

— Tom Waits

#else #everyone #i #just #like

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#because #being #comes #face #fix

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#cause #clubs #different #england #following

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. ↗

— George Carlin

#been #dust #established #example #fact

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything. ↗

— Drew Carey

#change #change the world #get #i #just

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#destruction #develop #engaged #had #into

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention. ↗

— Howie Carr

#attention #complex #dependency #increase #paying

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#genre #i #music #rap #trying