Lara St. John Quotes

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

In terms of sound, it's nothing huge, but when it comes to passion, The Tallest Man on Earth can be spotted from miles away.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful.

I want my music to be beautiful.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

I hope people will find sincerity and authenticity in my music.

The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.