Richard MacDonald Quotes

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.

It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that.