Mark Foster Quotes

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

Music and fashion inspire each other.

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

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 grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Songwriting's a weird game.

I consider myself a composer.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

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

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I'm really passionate about music.