Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Music inspires me.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Music, life, a lot of the things that we go through in the world, a lot of questions that we have about the world inspires me.

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.