Ne-Yo Quotes

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along to songs that I watched him write; it stuck with me.

Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

In my experience, my music has drawn people of all ages, which is a real wonderful thing. And at my gigs you get everyone from six year olds to 90 year olds. And I find that really quite moving, actually.

I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say as an artist. And hopefully, you're making something that someone's going to be like, 'This is my favorite song.' That's always your goal, I think, anybody in any genre.

Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.

I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

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.