Stefon Harris Quotes

For some producers who are technical-minded, making the song sound good is easy, and getting the emotion into the song is harder.

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

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

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

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.'

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

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.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be; and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.

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.

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

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

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

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

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.

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

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

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.

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