A Quote by Irvine Welsh

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

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Irvine Welsh
Scottish - Novelist
Born: September 27, 1961

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

Joshua Mohr

I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.

Leah Siegel

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Barry Hannah

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

Christian Bale

My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.

Jen Sincero

I was always interested in being a writer. Yet, at the time, it somehow seemed more unfeasible to be a writer than a musician.

Michelle Zauner

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Rick Springfield

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

Paul Kaye

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Erica Jong

If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

Yossi Vardi

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Alice Fulton

My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.

Nicholas Delbanco

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

Edmund White

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

Irvine Welsh

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Joan Jett

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