Steven Soderbergh Quotes

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

'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.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

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

Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

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 reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?