Keith Whitley Quotes

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

Music has always been close to my heart.

I like to make music because I've been making music since I was 7. I can get across the things that I want to say in my music so that I don't have to say anything. I don't have to speak out about the things I believe; I can say them in my music.

I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.

It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is ageless.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

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

We still have the love for music; it will forever be in my heart.

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.

There's an amazing power that music has, and it definitely had its power over me as a boy. I just saw fit to keep exploring it.

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.

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

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

It feels like I've been singing since I was born, and I have so many great memories with my family and friends centred around music.

I'll tell you what's crazy: Nobody in my family is musically inclined, no form, fashion, anything. I always had some type of connection to music though. This was long before I ever knew that I could sing, or I ever even tried to start singing. It was something different, man, it made me feel some type of way.

My love for music is infinite.

Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.