Joyful Music Quotes

Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.

When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.

I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

When people hear me sing, I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.

John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.

I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

What a Wonderful World' is a love song to nobody and everybody. I'm thinking about songs like that in my writing with 'Take Me to the Alley.'

Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also made me so grateful for food and for life, basically, and that's why a lot more joy is coming through our music, I think.

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

I was late to the game on D.R.A.M.; I knew of 'Cha Cha,' but then I saw his Tiny Desk Concert, and I was hooked. I love how happy he is.