Mark Helprin Quotes

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable.

I sing a lot about love.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

My heart and soul is still music.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

What's the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Music is only love looking for words.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.

Most of our songs are about relationships.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.