Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

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.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Eventually, I began singing in various shows. It was then that I started appreciating the breadth and depth of Hindi film music.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

I think I've been able to connect with people and their emotions through my songs. I feel honoured that despite having so many talented singers around, my work is always appreciated.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

There is something about the stage that makes it so much better than being in the studio. I always connect with my audience; a concert to me is a collaboration between me and the audience, and I love it so much.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.