Essential Element Quotes

Me personally, I'm just trying to be the 'X-factor' that's needed. Whatever is needed out of me, I want to come in and provide.

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.