Shura Quotes

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

I really want to explore every genre that I can.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.