Yael Naim Quotes

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

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.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

I like music because... its expressive, you can convey whatever you're thinking through a song. And it's the best respite for me anyway to do it through music. So I like music because you can express and let your soul out through it.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

the one universal form of art is music.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.