Washed Out Quotes

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

People's lives do not have to be drab and dreary and wrapped in old newspapers. The deserve something for the soul and noble visions.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.