Chord Overstreet Quotes

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

I like music when it makes you feel.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

Music should never be harmless.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

That's the cool thing that music can do: make you feel this or that way. That's all I've ever wanted to achieve - I'm a music guy, you know? That's my occupation.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

All that really moves me is music.