Paul Rodgers Quotes

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Most of the songs I wrote are personal.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.

Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.