Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love all that atmosphere and seeing people's mouths singing the words to the songs.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.
You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.
Paul Hackett: What do you want from me? I'm just a word processor!
The Brain: So what's the word with Em? Brendan Frye: She's gone. The Brain: Can't raise her? Brendan Frye: No, I can't.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
