Sunny Ozell Quotes

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage. Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I have a hard time writing for other people, writing with someone else in mind.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.