Music Resonance Quotes

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that's real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

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

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.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

The important thing is that my music is getting a positive reaction and that people are connecting with it.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

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.

When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Some songs just resonate with you.

There's something about real music, dawg. It comes to you; you don't have to go to it.

Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.