Glenn Frey Quotes

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

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

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

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

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

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better.

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Any time we have the opportunity to play in a more intimate room, there's such a huge aspect of our set just built for that. And beyond that, we just love being that close to our fans.

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

To be honest, I'm always really interested when people say they can relate to our songs. On the first album, that wasn't something I'd ever anticipated or thought about.