John Legend Quotes

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.