Quotes About Reality

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.