Steven Stucky Quotes

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.