Tom Morello Quotes

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

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.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of know me for bringing that emotion in music.

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

I've always been very emotional when I sing.

I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.