KT Tunstall Quotes

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

Music liberated me.

I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

Everyone comes to music when they are mourning, when they are happy - for anything.

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

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.