Olly Murs Quotes

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

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

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

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

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

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

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.

As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want it to be a pleasant experience that's not just about hearing my voice. I remember some singers whose voices were so pretty, it didn't matter what they sang - you loved it.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

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.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

To be honest, I'm always really interested when people say they can relate to our songs. On the first album, that wasn't something I'd ever anticipated or thought about.

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.