Christine and the Queens Quotes

The people need to feel the music.

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing.

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

That excitement of how music makes you want to dance - that's what got me back into it, and that's what 'Honey' is about. Me just being able to enjoy myself again.

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.

The experiences that I've had growing up with music, you know, I couldn't trade them for any money in the world. Dancing in the living room to enjoy myself. 'Enjoy Yourself,' Michael Jackson.

I like choir music. I sincerely do!

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

Dancing is one of the best ways of expressing yourself, and I definitely use it to release emotion.

We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn't know what he's talking about in all of his tracks, but I'm a fan. It's rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I'm convinced that my music can work in the U.S.

The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth. It's a cry and a celebration. That's what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone.