J. B. Priestley Quotes

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.

Great art can only be created out of love.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

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