Leonard Wolf quotes

“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”
-- Leonard Wolf

Source : Naomi Wolf, Leonard Wolf (2006). “The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See”, Simon and Schuster

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“Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.”
-- Leonard Wolf

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“You can't revise a blank page.”
-- Leonard Wolf

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“The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it.”
-- Leonard Wolf

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“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.”

“That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.”

“Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.”

“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”

“You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.”

“We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.”

“Find out what my Individual Divine and Unique Power IS and offer it outwards in harmony with all life!”

“December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.”