I am so lucky that I have been part of and written songs that will always resonate no matter how old they… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music? — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment.… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Without music and creativity, I'd need other forms of therapy. But for me, the life process is the process of healing yourself.… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
When I read about Gram Parsons' dream of this Cosmic American Music when I was in my late teens, that stuck with… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
The mad thing is, most of my life, when I'm not in a dark mood, it's been humour that's got me through. The only… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
You know, rock n' roll's an old carcass: it's one big cliche. It's so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share
![“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.” quote by Richard Ashcroft](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5fa/richard-ashcroft-4594_art_any-true-musician-true-artist-knows-that_1705590.png)
