Joey Soloway Quotes

For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.

We can play all we want, but if nobody's there, if nobody feels anything with what we're playing, then what's the purpose?

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.