Lauren Oliver Quotes

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

I couldn't choose between all of those things! I looooove acting and dancing on Shake It Up, and I am currently in the recording studio working on my music. And one of my dreams is to walk down the runway during fashion week!

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.