Adrianne Lenker Quotes

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I like any music I can feel.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that's the whole point of it - not telling people what it is or how they're supposed to feel... but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

You don't need to be a performer in order to dive into the sensory experience of music. Simply get as close as you can to the source of the music.

'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who create it.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

I like music that expresses what I think.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

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.

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the ones that become really meaningful to a lot of other people.