Music Relatability Quotes

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

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

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.

It doesn't matter what kind of music you like or what kind of person you are or what you're used to listening to, or whether you know me or not. It doesn't matter, either way you can be inspired by it [my songs]. Each way I want to make it relatable to that group, but most of all keep the inspirational part of it, for sure."

I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

Melodic songs that people can relate to has always been our thing.

It's strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn't feel like the characters within pop music - like when Madonna sings 'Crazy For You', for instance, I don't feel like I would ever be the character she takes on in that song. I would never feel... I don't have that confidence in me.

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