Steve Winwood Quotes

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

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.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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

That's what music is all about, vibes. That's what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

I like music because... its expressive, you can convey whatever you're thinking through a song. And it's the best respite for me anyway to do it through music. So I like music because you can express and let your soul out through it.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.