Markus Zusak Quotes

Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I'm always eager to make new music.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

It's all about the music, and I work as hard as I do strictly because of the music. It's not a money thing; it's not a career thing. It's simply to do with me being a music fan with a broad taste, wanting to do different styles and wanting to work with lots of different people.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

I'm just wowed by the universe. I'm just glad to do something I love to do. I love color, I love painting, I love shapes, I love composition, I love the people around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people.

I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.