David Sylvian Quotes

#1. During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Sylvian

#2. Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

David Sylvian

#3. The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

David Sylvian

#4. Creativity is no big deal.

Natalie Goldberg

#5. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#6. I'm obsessed with books.

David Sylvian

#7. The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Hosea Ballou

#8. Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Dennis Eckersley

#9. People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

David Sylvian

#10. In my life mission is everything.. Even if i was a municipal chairman, I would have worked as hard as a CM

Narendra Modi

#11. I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

David Sylvian

#12. Sadness can be romantic but it's dangerous to play on it.

Christopher E. Young

#13. It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

David Sylvian

#14. I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.

David Sylvian

#15. It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.

David Baldacci

#16. Rather than punch the girl in the face, he abruptly stood up from his seat and walked away.

Paul Auster

#17. I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

Marie Lu

#18. Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

David Sylvian

#19. People always judge according to the fruit.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

David Sylvian

#21. I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

David Sylvian

#22. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Beth Hoffman

#23. Give me pity.
Flash.
Give me empathy.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

David Sylvian

#25. Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Andrea Dworkin