Bruce Dern Quotes

Crying is a kind of communication, and communication is awesome.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

I blog because I have something to say.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.