Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in that respect, they lose any kind of sincerity. I don't know why. It's just my ears.

I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections runs the risk of removing a lot of the magic that makes this music really special, and diminishes music's ability to connect with us as human beings. We are all imperfect, after all.

AI as a tool in music-making is fine, but it's always going to be the humanity in music that makes people want to listen to it.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.

I'm touched by Jon Hendricks. I want some of my music to reflect that. And when I write, you're going to hear it.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.