Quotes About Reflection

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.