Britt Daniel Quotes

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

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

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

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.

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.

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.

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

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.

I write songs that mean something to me because I want to connect with people and make them feel something too.

'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

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.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

Songs are more powerful than books.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.

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.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

How many millions of times have I sung 'Love Changes Everything?' But when I see how it matters to people, it gives me the impetus to rediscover it and remember how lucky I am to have a song like that.

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

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

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

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.