Jonathan Levine Quotes

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

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

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

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.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

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.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Every artist wants to connect with the listener.

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

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.