Amy Grant Quotes

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

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.

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

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

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?