Emeli Sande Quotes

He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin album. Pink Floyd 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' or 'Animals.' I always catch myself at concerts being like, 'Oh, I just stared at the drummer for 15 straight minutes.' I study them.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

When I look at acts, I look at the worldwide potential. And what travels wide is melody.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

Good music is good music.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.

The choruses are important for me. I want to say something, and sing-along is great.

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

I'm a fan of Miguel's; he's a friend of mine. I like melodic music, you know?

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.

You don't write songs, really, when you're on tour.

If you're thinking about making a hit song, and you think I want everybody in the world to love it, then you kind of make it up, and you do it.