Itzhak Perlman Quotes

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Music inspires me.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Music is all I know.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Music is my life.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.