John Dryden Quotes

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

Music inflames temperament.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

Music is powerful.

Where words fail, music speaks.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

Songs, for me, are notes from the heart.

Music is about feeling.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.