Adam Lambert Quotes

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

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

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

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

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

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

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.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

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

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

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

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

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.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.

Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.