Jeff Lynne Quotes

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I like music when it makes you feel.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

When you're moved by music, that's always good.

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it can instantly do something to you. It has the power to move you.

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears.

There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.

I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.