Michael Patrick King Quotes

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

I feel like it's really important to support people who are coming up and really talented, who need someone to show people that they're cool and talented and doing something different. And I can help do that. It's cool.

Genius requires an audience.

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.

Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.