Idina Menzel Quotes

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

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 feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

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.

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

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?