Graham Nash Quotes

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

My intention was always to share my experience and my gifts on the largest stage possible.

I love entertaining and I love storytelling.

Once you get people's attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.