Brad Paisley Quotes

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

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

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

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

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

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

The original title was 'Waking Up Diagonal'. It's the first line of the song. I just thought it was more interesting than 'I Don't Care', which is such a boring title to me. When I hear that song, it breaks my heart a little bit because it's my story.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.