Haruki Murakami Quotes

What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

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.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

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

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.

Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting to the feelings and the heart and the people you're with.

In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.

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.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.