Todd Haynes 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'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.

Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

I really believe in the power of music.

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.