Douglas Hodge Quotes

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.

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

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

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

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

All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.

I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a writing perspective. There are things about those songs that do touch people in a way that a fun song can't.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

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.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.