Danny Gokey Quotes

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.