John Tiffany Quotes

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

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

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

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

How many millions of times have I sung 'Love Changes Everything?' But when I see how it matters to people, it gives me the impetus to rediscover it and remember how lucky I am to have a song like that.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.