Quotes About Simplicity

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

A bird, music and food -desert island items

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

Nature needs no help, just no interference.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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.