Mike Figgis Quotes

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

Music can make you go from sadness to an immense sadness. There is a limit; if you go too far, it becomes schmaltzy.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

Music is the perfect type of art.

I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

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

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.