Miranda Lambert Quotes

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

All my songs mean something to me.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are saying "love the new record" or "I love that record," this tune or that tune. It means an awful lot, or it's been a big part of their lives. As a songwriter, what else would you really want? You're trying to connect with people, people's emotions, and maybe say something about their lives or feelings. That's probably a good enough compliment to receive, really.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

Every song has a strong connection to us.

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.