Ray LaMontagne famous quotes

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Eye #Ears #Refuse

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Important #Easy #Caught

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Self #Growing #Musician

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Blessing #Disaster #My Blessing

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Choices #Finding Yourself #Spirals

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Crush #Song #Strong

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Song #Writing #Thinking

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Hurt #Fire #Fuel

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Wise #Voice #Trying

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Beautiful #Hurt #Painful

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Natural #Social #Situation

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Voice #Tone

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Skins #Uncomfortable

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Moving #Past #Sky

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Song #Way #Different

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Thinking #Singers #Folks

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Strong #Self #Negative

I want to write music that will outlive me.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Writing #Want

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.
-- Ray LaMontagne

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Believe In You

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Men #Talking #World

I feel calm when I'm on my own.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Calm #Feels

I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Space #Needs #Audience

I want to be in control of my own destiny.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Destiny #Want

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Impossible #Excited

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Eye #Kind #Demon

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Guitar #Pieces #Storytelling

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Growing Up #Real #Poverty

My backstory is so tedious.
-- Ray LaMontagne

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Song #Mean #Thinking

I'm a private person.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Persons

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Song #Talking #People

I'm a very emotional person.
-- Ray LaMontagne

#Emotional #Persons