Aldis Hodge Quotes

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

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Music is real. It affects people; it's real.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

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

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

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.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

Any musical output is emotional.