John Muir Quotes

We always play better when we play with emotion.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.