Prince Quotes

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

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.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.

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.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

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

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

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