Channing Dungey Quotes

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

I want people to feel good after I sing.

People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.

When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.

When something is heartwarming and triumphant, and not corny or preachy, it's such a powerful thing.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

I like the good feeling movies.

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the air with your fist. It can't be ponderous.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

I love to make people feel.

I love happy-sounding music.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable.

What were you thinking about? When I came in?" "Being Sam," I said. "What a nice thing to be," Grace said. And then she smiled, bigger and bigger, until I felt my expression mirror hers, our noses touching.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Smiles are the soul's kisses.

Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Where there is love, there is joy.