Jimi Hendrix Quotes

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

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

Kenny Loggins pours his heart and soul into the music he makes. He'll take you with him through everything he's going through, which is not easy.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

I give my heart in every single session I've done, and I get into the music. I love all kinds of music, and I try and really be as authentic as possible and give from my heart.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

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

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

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

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

Music is important.

I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.