Amos Oz Quotes

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.