Albert Hammond Jr. Quotes

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

I like music when it makes you feel.

Music is a safe kind of high.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Music inspires me.

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.