John Guare Quotes

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

You don't know what inspires you. You like to think you know what inspires you, but in the final analysis I don't think you really do. It's great to look at a blank sheet of paper, you know, and walk up to an instrument and not know what's gonna happen. It's the most challenging thing I do.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Things are electric. If we don't make up our minds on what we are going to do ... there will be pandemonium. Of course, if we do there may also be pandemonium.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.

I'm one of those artists who, if you'd let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the point where sometimes you just have to let go and make the decision, 'Okay, that's it.'

Honestly, who knows 100 per cent what they will do next year?