Leo Ornstein Quotes

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

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

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

Our entire goal is to make something that moves you... if you don't want to call it country, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.