Skylar Grey Quotes

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

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.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

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

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

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

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

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.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

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 was inspired by Solange's album, 'A Seat At The Table,' from the moment that I heard it. She has clearly taken the time to create a unique body of work and emote through her music from a true place.

When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.