Kyle Quotes

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

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.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

Tennis needs some different personalities and a lot more emotions.

It's not so uncommon for me to get so wrapped up in a song that I cry several times when I sing them. That's the difference between my music and some of the other folks.

I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

Edna - when I first picked her up, she had a voice that really spoke to me.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

I tried for a long time to make DJ-able dance tracks that were more specific to the stuff that I was playing. Ultimately, I found I wasn't really capable of doing that. The only type of music I was able to make that really made me feel something would just come straight from my heart or straight from whatever emotions I was feeling at that time.

That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough. Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.