Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.
I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.
The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.
You can find me in the frozen mood section.
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.
I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole.
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.