Sam Phillips Quotes

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

I only do what comes from the heart.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.