Mark Heard Quotes

A lot of times I wonder what Adam would have written songs about. -Appalachian Melody.

Maybe those inclined towards the arts are so spiritually retarded to a degree that we must go through the whole process of cathartic expression just to discover how we really feel.

It's terribly demeaning to write something that tells its story in its own way and be told it fails because it might scare somebody. My God, must we speak with all the candor of a wax Elvis?

I told him I just want to write some more songs and put them on tape. I figure the content of the songs and how I choose to answer for myself is my business. He says he is sorry, even cut to the heart, but he cannot and will not sign me, as, alas, I cannot say the things he wanted to hear. I say I am sorry he cannot hear the things I'm trying to say.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Trying to avoid clichés helps life become fresh again, helps us remember what life is about in the first place. -Fingerprint.

Writing brings about a catharsis of my own terror and pity. It is something I have to do.

I am apt to hire musicians sometimes because I know they will have some good jokes to tell.

Sometimes it seems Christians confuse their human nature with their sinful nature. The former we were created with, the latter we chose. It does us no good to try and escape our humanness and in so doing think we are escaping our sin. -Fingerprint.

That's what music is about, and those are the types of experiences I value most in looking for the visceral and unidentifiable thing it is that makes music music, and not something else.

I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.

Sounds are indeed like colors, and my hunger for a truer palette of colors grows day to day.

I must at least tell somebody, even only God and myself, what I have seen and felt.

Did you know that Bertrand Russell dropped all belief in God because he wasn't able to voice his doubts in the company of believers? -Appalachian Melody.

Life is much more of a compromise than I ever imagined.