John Tiffany Quotes

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

American blues can make you sad.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

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

I like music when it makes you feel.

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

I've cried over string arrangements.

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.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

All I care about is my music.