D.R.A.M. Quotes

The people need to feel the music.

I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

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 question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

I just want to bring the people good music.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

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

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I dazzle you with that footwork.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.