Vance Joy Quotes

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I wrote this song. That's a good job.' And it is a job.

Whenever I sing a song, I just want it to reach out to the audience.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.

I just don't like looking at the crowd and seeing them just staring and listening to the music. When I get them involved, whatever type of music I'm playing, they leave there feeling better.

It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

To be honest with you, the fact that people vibe with my music is just a really positive byproduct of something that is just a reflex to me. The fact that people even care to listen means a lot to me.

I just want to make music people like.

I believe in my kind of music and I'm happy to have reached out to people through my songs. My dream was to sing my compositions and get accepted by listeners.

I am amused with the love people are showing for my songs. I am really happy to see my fans enjoying my music and loving the music I make.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'