Annie Leibovitz Quotes

Life is funny and weird.

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Singing is my life, and I have to do it, or I'm going to go totally bananas.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Music is my life.

Every day is bizarre.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

I sing about life.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I can't imagine a world without music.

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.

Music is in everything I do.

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Life can be very strange.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.