Adrian Younge Quotes

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

That's why I fell in love with country music: it made me feel something.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.

I know when I watch certain actors or if I watch Thom Yorke sing on stage, I'm affected by it emotionally. I guess that's what we are all striving for in art but that's such a beautiful thing that happens between two people that may never even meet. So when you do get to meet someone who was affected in that way, it's awesome.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.