Moving Lyrics Quotes

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

I like to be dramatic in my music because that's when it gets to your heart.

I've always been very emotional when I sing.

My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in the audience to that song, and that's so much more interesting to me than making someone just jump up and down.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I call 'Mukkathe Penne' my first emotional hit because it's the kind of song that goes straight into the hearts of the audience.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.

The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

R&B touches your heart.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

'Haaye ve' is a very special song that evokes many emotions.

I remember, with Kendrick on 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' I was in tears. I literally was because it had pulled me and pushed me and stretched me and crushed me and expanded me. It was like I didn't know which way was up. By the end of it, I felt like I was floating in the ocean like a carcass.

There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.