Varg Vikernes Quotes

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

Ideas come from everything

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

I loved everything, but it was Kanye West who really changed everything for me.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that we're inspired by, is because there is a certain amount of instability constantly, and I think that mirrors the instability of any given life.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.