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.'
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.
It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.
