Concha Buika Quotes

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me.

I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.