Musical Feeling Quotes

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

It's like something happened to you that caused you to do what you do...you heard something somewhere, you felt something about this music that was definitely part of your own vision. That's what the whole thing is like.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely.

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Music is more than words. It's a visual experience, too, and people really feel my music because of the way I move and put on a show.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.