Mack Wilberg Quotes

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

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

The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand.

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

For me, it's all about making a song that communicates something to a big crowd, but you still feel like it's authentic to who you are. That's that kind of pop that I hope and wish to do.

It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.

My favorite part is, once a song is out there to the public, having someone come up and tell their own story about why one of your songs resonated with them. It's an incredible feeling.

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.