Quotes About Genuine

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Beauty is not about make up it's about what it makes you to be from within.

You can't fool nature.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

Life is real, not ideal.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

I generally eschew frivolous and meaningless social encounters. - Arlo Patterson

Bernard compares the study of the Word and the mere reading of it to the difference between a close friendship and a casual acquaintance. If you want genuine knowledge, he says, you will have to do more than greet the Word politely on Sundays or nod reverently when you chance to meet it on the street. You must walk with it and talk with it every day of the week. You must invite it into your private chambers, and forego other pleasures and worldly duties to spend time in its company.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.