Javed Ali Quotes

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

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

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

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

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I prefer my piano to people. It's totally reliable and it's alive. I can hear what it's saying.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that's the whole point of it - not telling people what it is or how they're supposed to feel... but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.

My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

I think I've been able to connect with people and their emotions through my songs. I feel honoured that despite having so many talented singers around, my work is always appreciated.

We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.