Nina Nesbitt Quotes

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

The artists that I relate to and love the most are the ones where I can listen to the record, and I can know them better, and for me, that's writing it.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

Music is something that's so powerful and means so much to me.

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.

AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.

I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

All I can hope for is songs that feel special and songs that make people feel.