Musical Moods Quotes

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.