Mark Twain Quotes

The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

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 a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

The power of music is real.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Any musical output is emotional.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

The power of music is a wonderful thing. It can make us happy, make us cry. It can make us forget and make us remember.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.