Christine McVie Quotes

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

My music comes from my emotion, always.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

My version of 'Fast Car' is in the same key as the original. To me that is where all the emotion lies.

I think there are ways a place can sneak its way into a song, or a feeling that you take into the studio.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Music is a part of someone's soul. Music is a feeling for me. And if that soul is evil, then I don't want anything to do with it.

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

People like Nick Cave - that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes - I find it uplifting because it's like someone else is feeling what you're feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it's just the fact that they're expressing their soul through music.

Any musical output is emotional.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

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.

One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

I don't want to tell fans what to think or what to believe or whatever, but at the same time, some things just hit you very personally.

Music - it speaks to everyone. Music speaks to everyone on so many different levels.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.