Quotes by Joan Osborne

Joan Osborne

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you’re taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family’s security. But the rewards outweigh those things.

Artist

Rewards

Risk

Even if I’m doing a show and there’s five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible – I mean, it’s been a while but I’ve certainly done those kind of shows where it’s just every conceivable thing is against you – you still have music. It’s still something that’s real whether there’s five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that’s always been there for me.

Mean

People

Real

How long have you been sitting in the darkness? You forget. You know you’re getting hard to be with and you’re crying every time you turn around. Oh my crazy baby, try to hold on tight. Oh my crazy baby, don’t put out the light. And your hands are shaking something awful as your worries crawl around inside your clothes.

Baby

Crazy

Light

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

Connected

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

Connections

Divine

Infinite

I do think that it’s a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say that there’s still more to discover. And also to have that confidence in yourself that you still have more to bring.

Careers

People

Thinking

I feel like I’m getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

Get Better

People

Singers

I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I’ve set for myself. And that’s hard to feel – like you’re giving your life to something and you can’t really do it as well as you want to do it.

Giving

Tasks

Want

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Doubt

Self

Suffering

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn’t see a way to get out.

Dark

Mind

Thinking

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Agreement

Artist

Baby

Beautiful

Beautiful Things

Body

Brother

Buddhism

Careers

Church Music

Connected

Connections

Crazy

Dark

Different

Divine

Doubt

Drug

Emotion

Felt

Friendship

Get Better

Giving

Grateful

Gratitude

Infinite

Knowing

Light

Littles

Long

Mean

Mind

Moving

Nipples

Pain

Pathways

People

Perspective

Philosophy

Powerful

Practice

Real

Reality

Realizing

Reassuring

Religion

Religious

Return

Rewards

Risk

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Quotes by Joan Osborne

Joan Osborne

Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you’re taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family’s security. But the rewards outweigh those things.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I do think that it’s a challenge for me or for anybody who has had certain iconic things happen to them in their career to re-engage people and say that there’s still more to discover. And also to have that confidence in yourself that you still have more to bring.

I feel like I’m getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I have to say what I do is not easy and there are definitely moments where I feel inadequate to the tasks I’ve set for myself. And that’s hard to feel – like you’re giving your life to something and you can’t really do it as well as you want to do it.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn’t see a way to get out.

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