Quotes About Authenticity

All rock music is fake news.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Nature hates calculators.

Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.