Sigrid Quotes

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of know me for bringing that emotion in music.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I've always been very emotional when I sing.

I always try to take performances as an opportunity to implant my spirit into the hearts and minds of anyone in a hundred-yard vicinity.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended to move the softer passions, the notes imperceptibly melt into one another.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

I like to play the lute full-bloodedly, with passion, as well as with delicacy and, I hope, refinement.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

I play very, very emotional. That's just my style.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

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.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.