Lara Fabian Quotes

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

I believe, as artists, I do think we have a responsibility, and there's also a place for a lot of different artists. It is nice when music captures the honesty of the time but also what we're going through in that moment.

I don't want to sing songs and write songs that need to have images behind them that are of a specific time. The times we live in today - I mean, there's a lot to work with. But I think that if I was my age in 1975 or 1985, I would have felt the same way because that's what I gravitate toward.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.