Art Quote by Shawn Colvin Download Open image “When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.” — Shawn Colvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Became Sober Struggling
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37. — David Berman Copy Share Image
My first attempt at real music was when I was 13. My first signed band was when I was 21; that failed. I got… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal,… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of. — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
