Karrin Allyson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.
-- Karrin Allyson

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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

Karrin Allyson famous quotes

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