Santigold Quotes

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

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

Any musical output is emotional.

I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I like music when it makes you feel.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

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

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

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