Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.