Nyle DiMarco Quotes

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

I don't see music as working.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

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

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.

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

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I know music is subjective.

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.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

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

Music has always been close to my heart.

The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.

I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.

At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination and their experiences.