Jack Kerouac Quotes

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

I can't fake emotion.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.

I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it's hard for me, because I feel like I'm cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it's real.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.