Andy Grammer Quotes

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Music is how you feel.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is the key to the female heart.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.