Javed Ali Quotes

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I enjoy keeping busy, and fortunately for me, there's a large audience out there who are keen to hear me sing. It's their love and affection that keep me going.

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.

How many millions of times have I sung 'Love Changes Everything?' But when I see how it matters to people, it gives me the impetus to rediscover it and remember how lucky I am to have a song like that.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.

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

I think songs can have different lives.

As an entertainer, my first responsibility is to entertain my fans who have made me who I am today. I am not a preacher who can tell youngsters what they should be doing and what they should not be doing. The youth of our country is intelligent enough to know what is good and bad, and my songs can't change their thinking.

That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night.

I love what I do, and if I'm playing for people who love what I'm doing, I don't really care, I'll keep playing till the cows come home.