Jill Scott Quotes

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

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

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

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 sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.