Hilary Hahn Quotes

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

If you think about it, for almost any moment, any mood that you might be in, there's probably a Beatles song that will address that mood, that feeling, that set of emotions. I don't know that that can be said about very many groups, if any.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

People respond to any good you can do in music.

Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.

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

I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

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.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

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.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

Any musical output is emotional.

I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

It's very hard to make grand, romantic gestures on a mandolin, and there are times, particularly when playing Bach, that you long for just a little more sustain. But for better or worse it's my voice, and the trade-off comes with increased intimacy. It's like you're beckoning the audience closer: 'C'mere, I've got something to tell ya.'

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.