Quotes About Emotions

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.