David Lowery Quotes

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I never smile unless I mean it.

I can't fake emotion.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

Music is probably one of the most honest things out there - it's feral.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being. I think that's what people find interesting about what I do; it's very different lyrically.

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.