Stone Gossard Quotes

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to 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.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I like any music I can feel.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

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.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

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

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.