Johann Johannsson Quotes

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and it requires pacing yourself and also being very vulnerable.

French horn can be very epic, and at the same time, very dark and moving.

The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can.

Emotion is a full range of a spectrum, like colours. It's not just anger. How are you going to get that out with just a guitar and screaming? You need to explore everything else.

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

I love the word 'resonance.'

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

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