My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".
Where words cease, there music begins.
I've cried over string arrangements.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.
The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.
'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people's hearts.
Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.
Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.
All the best songs have an element of sadness.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.
The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.
The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.
Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely.
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
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.
I think when people listen to music, they can truly feel authenticity. For me personally, as a listener, there's certain songs where I'm just like, 'Man, I know that person was really feeling that.'
