Peter Garrett Quotes

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I don't think words always lead to meaning, but the things you can create with them are still pretty amazing. I've been really into Joni Mitchell, for example, but I've also been into some studio stuff, like Bjork.

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

What we play is life.