Erik Hassle Quotes

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's celebratory or whether it's conflicted.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.