Joan Osborne Quotes

#1. I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

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#2. 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.

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#3. With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

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#4. There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

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#5. 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.

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#6. It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

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#7. Singing is a f***ing blast. When it's really good, it's as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!

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#8. Music has always felt very real to me.

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#9. It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.

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#10. I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

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#11. I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

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#12. We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

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#13. You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

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#14. What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

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#15. 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.

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#16. Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. 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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#20. I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

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