Jill Scott Quotes

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

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

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

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

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

Great art can only be created out of love.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

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.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

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.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

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.

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.