Lisa Gerrard Quotes

#1. Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

Wanda Jackson

#2. Boys. Nine times out of ten, they're wrong and the tenth time they made a lucky guess.

Kirn Hans

#3. Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

A. G. Mohan

#4. Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

Charlotte Selver

#5. A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

Lisa Gerrard

#6. There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.

Lisa Gerrard

#7. The deader your gospel, the flashier your package. Smoke and subwoofers can never do what one glimpse of Christ crucified can do.

J.D. Greear

#8. When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.

Sarah Stillman

#9. Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

Lisa Gerrard

#10. Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on.

Lisa Gerrard

#11. With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.

Lisa Gerrard

#12. There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

Lisa Gerrard

#13. To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

Josh Peck

#14. There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Lisa Gerrard

#15. Don't fuck with me. I don't like it and I know your mother.
Jory to a Handsy-Hayes Fischer

Mary Calmes

#16. I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

Lisa Gerrard

#17. Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

Derek Bok

#18. The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain,

Lisa Gerrard