Dianne Reeves Quotes

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.

'Haaye ve' is a very special song that evokes many emotions.

I love seeing Tim Hecker perform because the experience truly shakes me.

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

I don't want people to look back at my matches and say, 'When you did that move, it was good, and I liked it because it was cool.' I want people to sort of remember a rush of images and the emotion that they felt when they saw it. That's when I think you have a real masterpiece in your hands.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

That's the ideal to me - to make music that is well-crafted and sophisticated technically, but has a soul and a heart that touches a lot of people.

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

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

I call 'Mukkathe Penne' my first emotional hit because it's the kind of song that goes straight into the hearts of the audience.

I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be quiet, and they can feel, and you will have scored as well.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

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.

Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that my performance took them to a trance zone, I had no idea that I can create an impact with my singing.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.