Jeff Mangum Quotes

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

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.

I've always had a passion for music - it's a real part of me.

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

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

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

Music is my life. It is sacred.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

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

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

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.

Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Music means a great deal to me.

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

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?