Brett Young Quotes

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

I want the biggest artist of 2030, 2027 or even 2025 to say, 'I was inspired by Cordae. Cordae is the reason I make music.'

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.