Britt Daniel Quotes

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

A great song is a great song.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I think any great song is difficult to write, in some aspect. It's just difficult to make somebody feel something. That is the main goal. How do you make somebody want to get up and dance? How do you make somebody feel okay after their breakup?

Music is really powerful. It's a universal language that connects everyone.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

All that really moves me is music.

As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy to listen to.

Music is my friend, my constant companion.

Music is the universal language.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

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

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

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.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

There are a million good tunes.

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