Allan Holdsworth Quotes

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

I have so much love for art.

I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Doing action, the thing is it's cool to watch it, and as a guy I like seeing it. With the romance thing it's something everyone can relate to. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, I think everyone can do anything. Once someone's in love they can do the craziest thing that no one's ever thought of. You have that excuse to do whatever you want.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

For the Warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.