Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.