Lorrie Moore Quotes

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

I can't even imagine life without music!

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Everyone deserves music.

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.

I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

'Singing Saw' was exactly seeing through my eyes; 'City Music' let me write from somebody else's perspective, somebody living in New York.