Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you. "

Related Quotes:

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "

" I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace. "

" When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young. "

" Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone. "

" I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid. "

" Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of. "

" War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing. "

" I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like? "

" I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name. "

" When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day. "

" I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat. "

" When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed. "

" I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away. "

" I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting. "

" Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me. "

" I don't know who my dad is. "

" I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be. "

" Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart. "

" There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice. "

" I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. "

" We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is. "

" Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. "

" I don't have the experience of being in a war. "

" I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that. "

" I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song. "

" I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way. "

" There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike. "

" When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. "

" Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it. "