Tom Odell Quotes

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

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.

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

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.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

Music has always been close to my heart.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

Music has been a huge part of my life, and I feel like it's a part of everyone's.

Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.

I love music. It's always been very dear to me. It's a big passion.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

I've had a wonderful life with music.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.