Max Martin Quotes

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

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

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

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.

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

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

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.

That's the ideal to me - to make music that is well-crafted and sophisticated technically, but has a soul and a heart that touches a lot of people.

I love to zoom in and study why a chord is making me feel a certain way, but then I've learnt to zoom out again. Because if I'm not actually feeling it, there's not much point making it in the first place.

Reading music is good for training, getting things done in a hurry. It doesn't teach you nothing about feeling.

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.

Any musical output is emotional.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.