Alessia Cara Quotes

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

'7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.

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.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling.

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

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

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them.