Haruki Murakami Quotes

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

'In The Heights' was my favorite show, so hip hop is something that's really close to my heart, but aside from the hip hop, there are so many wondrous things about it.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

The acoustic guitar is my first love, I've been playing since I was a kid, and I feel the most at home when I'm sitting with an acoustic, I just love it so much. It changes my heart. I love the vibration and frequencies and the resonance.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.

"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.