Alan Lightman Quotes

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.

I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I don't want to lie. Always, I want to be honest and I sayI, don't think about tomorrow. I don't think about next season.'

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

Passion is not something you have to talk about. People feel it.

I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

I tend to lose myself in the moment. I’m not very good at holding back. I don’t know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

I am incredibly passionate about my life, I am absolutely unable to hide any emotion. If I wrote a book, I'd have to call it 'P is for Passion'. I don't go in for anything halfway. My feelings about things are instant, on the spot. And my heart is always, always on my sleeve.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.