Nate Ruess Quotes

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

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

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

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

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

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

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Music hits everyone differently every single day.

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.

The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.