Louise Bogan Quotes

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

I sing about life.

I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.