Music Connectivity Quotes

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

The next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.

I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

If my music has power, I don't have to hashtag anything. If it has to connect with someone, it will. That has been my experience.

You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

The kind of songs I sing have been existing in Bollywood music since a long time. In fact, the reason my music is so popular amongst the millions of youth is because I sing in their own language, in their own slang, and about their lives.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it's not just nostalgia. It's a feeling of it's really relevant to their lives, even though it's 20 or 25 years old or more.

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.

I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything.

I think one of the reasons people are so passionate about our band is because we're so accessible.

I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs of my music, and I think that some guy that he worked with had a niece who worked with the talent scout, or something really drawn out, kind of word-of-mouth.