Eliot Sumner Quotes

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

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

I like any music I can feel.

I like music when it makes you feel.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

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

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

Any musical output is emotional.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.