Quotes About Music

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.