Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quotes

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

Any musical output is emotional.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.