“For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.” IfsSelfArtistValuesCreativeExpressionProductsFameEnjoyedVansSelf ExpressionComposingComplementComposing Music Book:What Price Fame? Source: What Price Fame?
“I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.” CreativeFameAmbitionBe CreativeLapDumpedCarrying OnClamor Author:Bryan Adams
“I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.” ActorsCreativeFameFortuneBe CreativeAdamant Author:Abbie Cornish
“I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.” ReasonDreamJobsOpportunityLeftFeltDecisionMillionsCreativeRegretNeededFameOppositesMirrorsSpendingAspirationBullshitFulfilling Author:Mark Knopfler
“If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.” IfsBigsJoyDesirePassionProcessChanceCreativeFameCreative ProcessDecreaseMoney And Fame Author:Klaus Teuber
“Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.” PeopleWantLongTwoBigsTogetherSidesRealizingDecisionCareersCreativeEffectsHugeFamePopularityLongevitySide EffectsReally LongLong CareersBusiness Decisions Author:Jewel
“So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.” ThinkingWayWritingHas BeensBookAbleStuffSoundCreativeFameExcitingUncomfortableReally Amazing Author:Moshe Kasher
“I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.” EndsHateActingCreativeFameI Hate Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me. Fame and fortune is fairly irrelevant to me. It's nice because it gives creative freedom. But just wanting to be famous is ridiculous because it's so vacuous. So, I get offered lots of different things and if they spark my interest, I'll try and do them because they form part of a wider creative circle.” GivingTryingMeanDifferentInterestCreativeNiceFameRidiculousIrrelevant Author:David Essex
“In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.” WayImportantTimeSocialCreativityCreativeFameOriginalsShockingProfitableVulgarityFragmentation Author:Al Gore
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.” WorldYearsSelfScienceFoundBornForgetCreativeBirthHonorFameResearchYears AgoScientistSlaveryFortuneSouthCaringHelpfulCentreFound Happiness Author:George Washington Carver
“The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.” IdeasScienceSpiritKnowledgeCreativityCreativeTeachingCenturyFieldsKingsFameResearchIndependentGuidesExperimentsKingdomsConquerRulersAbstractionProvincesCreative WorkCraftsmanApplied Science Author:Fritz Haber