Levon Helm Quotes

I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incredible opportunities. I've gone to great schools. I've travelled across the country.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

I've always felt really lucky and really privileged with my life, how I grew up, and the opportunities I've had.

I've been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don't get any.

I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

My life is better than a lot of people I know. I'm definitely happy about that.

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.