Daily Inspiration Quote by Barbra Streisand

Instinct over experience is a risky boast in almost any profession. Coming from Barbra Streisand, it reads less like anti-intellectual swagger and more like a survival strategy from someone who built a career by refusing to be “coachable” in the narrow way Hollywood often means it.

The line pushes back on a culture that worships credentials and apprenticeship while quietly punishing singularity. Streisand’s screen presence and musical choices weren’t designed to blend in; they were designed to land. “Experience” can be a polite synonym for institutional taste: notes from producers, inherited rules about what a leading lady should look like, how a woman should sound, when she should soften. By saying she doesn’t worry about it, she’s not dismissing craft so much as refusing to let the industry’s memory overwrite her own internal compass.

There’s also a gendered charge. Men get to be “visionary” when they act on gut; women get labeled “difficult.” Streisand’s phrasing turns that insult into a tool: instinct becomes authority, not impulsiveness. It’s a quiet claim to authorship, especially significant for a performer who became a director and producer when the system offered few lanes for women to control the work.

The intent isn’t to romanticize inexperience. It’s to elevate a different kind of expertise: the accumulated intelligence of taste, timing, and self-trust. In a business built on imitation, she’s arguing that originality is its own resume.