Goapele Quotes

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

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

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

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I like any music I can feel.

I like music when it makes you feel.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it can instantly do something to you. It has the power to move you.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.

Music makes me cry.

'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.