Lesley Garrett Quotes

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.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

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

I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.

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

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me in a lot of ways. It's helped me get through some tough times.' That's the best compliment that you could get.