Eric Whitacre Quotes

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

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

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Writing is a good creative outlet... it's a supplement to my music.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.

As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Music and dance are all you need.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.