Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
Taylor SwiftArt is to be free. Design is to fix.
Kanye WestYou know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘
Joe BidenThe spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar WildeWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac AsimovI’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Joel OsteenThirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye WestI don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark TwainWithout freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert CamusI have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhen I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin LutherEvery man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel JohnsonI just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Clint EastwoodArt should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar WildeI cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo CoelhoThere’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonOne has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia WoolfThere, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
David BowieA song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
David BowieI guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.
David BowieI believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles SpurgeonI don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.
AuroraWhen I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnMy role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John LennonPoetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert FrostI like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.
Anthony BourdainA letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEvery artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert CamusIt’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
Kanye WestIf it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt CobainIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyWe have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich NietzscheMusic comes to me more readily than words.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
Wayne DyerWhen I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.
Jimmy CarterSociety can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund BurkeMusic is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
AuroraLet reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham LincolnWhen men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin FranklinMusic is something no one can control.
Bad BunnyEvangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.
Billy GrahamThe artist in me cries out for design.
Robert FrostNothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.
Bob DylanI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowieIs science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. FeynmanThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanWords are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert FrostWriting is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
C. S. LewisI very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
Albert EinsteinThe obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil GibranI used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
Mr. TWriters write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous HuxleyAll good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee WilliamsI have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.
Terry PratchettThe first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawI feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.
Bruno Mars