When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Charlotte Eriksson Artists Creativity Finding Identity Music Music Quotes Musician Purpose Singers Singersongwriter Singing Songs Songwriter Songwriters Writing

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Actors Actresses Appreciation Artists Beauty Confidence Creatives Creators Of Dreams Dancers Dreamers Film Director Film Making Gifts God Happiness Heaven Learning Life Mental Disorders Mentally Ill Musicians Philosophers Plots Right Brained Romance Writers Screenwriters Singers Songwriters Stories Talents Tribute Visionaries Wild Souls Writers

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.

~ Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André Poets Songwriters Why We Write Writer Writers On Writing

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

~ Sarah Mclachlan

Sarah Mclachlan Breakups Emotion Music Musicians Obsession Relationships Singer Songwriters Songwriters

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were.

~ Alan Moore

Alan Moore Artists Artists Way Bard Irony Modernity Is A Sickness Musicians Politics Satire Singers Songwriters