Arnold Schoenberg Quotes

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.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

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.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

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

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

I think there's thousands of good songs in the world - the songs that we can all sing along to, songs that are just so catchy they end up being in your head. But I think a great song is something that emotionally engages with you and connects with you.

Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.