Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I miss the emotion of singing. There is something about it which means you can express emotions to people without actually talking to them.

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

Tone is very important to me.

Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

It's amazing what art can do.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

I just hope my songs mean enough to people. And I feel like you have to live to learn.

I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us than that.

Even silence is so articulate at times.

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.