Dave Gahan Quotes

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

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

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

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 love to play my music. That's what my heart wants me to do is to play music, and I love doing that when I got my band and my crew and all those folks with me, and that whole thing cranks up; it's really something to enjoy.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

I love singing so much. As a kid, that was what I wanted to do.

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.