Sid Sriram Quotes

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

For me, one song is not enough to be in a person's world. I need to be in their world for 40 minutes; I want to fully experience it and immerse myself.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

I don't like to talk too much about my music; I like people to just experience it and not worry what I have to say.