Betty Wright Quotes

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

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

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

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 just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

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

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

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 love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real.

When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.

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.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

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

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.