Downshifters Quotes & Sayings

The trouble is that I am being bullied and intimidated by my own success and the fame that surrounds it and what people expect of me and their demands on me. They are forcing me out of my natural position as an artist so that I am in peril of ceasing to be an artist at all. When that happens I will be nothing because I cannot be a professional writer. — Tennessee Williams

Politics is a slippery ground; they that wish to walk on this ground must walk with due care and courage! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon. — Al Kooper

The Seahawks have only been around since 1976, so our fan base is relatively young. You talk about the Patriots, or the Celtics or, obviously, Red Sox and Bruins. Your grandfather's father was a fan of that team. People have lived there their whole lives. — Matt Hasselbeck

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down. — Amanda Palmer