Ben Rector Quotes

#1. We in middle age require adventure.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#2. One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.

Karen Salmansohn

#3. YF-4K pre-production aircraft, followed

Eric Brown

#4. It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.

Ben Rector

#5. You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

Master P

#6. I would say that I'm happy getting to make a living playing music and seeing people enjoy music that I make. So far, things have grown consistently and quicker than I thought they would, so that could possibly continue. Even if it ended tomorrow, I'd be really grateful that I got to do it.

Ben Rector

#7. If you want to know how old a woman is ... ask her sister-in-law.

E.W. Howe

#8. It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

Pablo Picasso

#9. They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

Santiago Durango

#10. Recording can be enjoyable, but the hard thing is that you don't get any direct or immediate feedback like you do when you play live. Getting to see people's excitement and see them engage in the show makes me excited to get back out and play.

Ben Rector

#11. In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.

Ben Rector

#13. Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.

Ben Rector

#14. For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.

Orlando Figes

#15. Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.

Ben Rector

#16. I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.

Ben Rector

#17. Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

Phil Kaye

#18. I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

Ben Rector

#19. I'm not worthy of you or your Omega awesomeness.

James Ponti

#20. As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

Nainoa Thompson

#21. I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

Lenny Abrahamson