Matt Haig Quotes

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is, it means there’s tremendous love there too. If you didn’t love the project that is terrifying you, you wouldn’t feel anything. The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I loved dance.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

The great love of my life is music.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is my love.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

My first love is literature.

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

My passion is music. That's where my heart is.

The one thing about songwriting that's been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.