Sunny Murray Quotes

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

What we play is life.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

Music is in everything I do.

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

I think songs can have different lives.

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

Music is a dialogue.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Acting meant so much to me.