David Edwards Quotes

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

I hear music as narrative.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.