Quotes About Introspection

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

I know absolutely nothing about music.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

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.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

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.

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

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.