Michael Giacchino Quotes

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

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

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

That's what made me fall in love with music in the first place was the idea of being able to take listeners on a journey across forty or sixty minutes.

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

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

I love the string band. I love the sound of it, the possibilities of it, I love the physical sensation of creating and performing in it. It's my voice.

People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie with unexpected bursts of energy. It's really kind of psychedelic in a way.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.