Ryan Adams Quotes

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.