Peter Tork Quotes

Most importantly, I don't do music for people to want to be a singer, actor, or dancer. I do it because I love it and I want to show others you can accomplish goals.

Music inspires me.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and reflects that, then that's an achievement.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.