Jacob Whitesides Quotes

Whenever I sing a song, I just want it to reach out to the audience.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

To see fans singing your songs back to you is an indescribable thing.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

When I play the first few notes of a song and people start screaming, I think: 'That's why I did this. That's why I wrote this song. That's a good job.' And it is a job.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

Since I am an avid singer and a lot of my fans want to hear me sing, I thought it will be really nice to sing my songs online so that more people could watch me, and I thought digital is the best way to connect with everyone.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

Being in front of the audience, letting my audience see me in person - it is real intimate, you get to make them laugh and cry, they get to feel you. And then afterward, we go out and do a meet-and-greet session with the fans. It was just a wonderful experience. I really, really enjoyed it.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.