Jim Jarmusch Quotes

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

I chose to be part of 'Kaafir' because the story called out to my soul, I need to connect with it.

When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do something creative and credible. Like, 'Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?' I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.

If it don't touch my soul then I can't listen to it.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a short while, to get it right. Which is why I sometimes listen to music when I'm revising. Music creates moods for me quicker than any other medium.

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

You're more powerful when talking from your soul.