Emotional Music Quotes

I've cried over string arrangements.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

Songs like "Spirit Carries On" really gets the audience moved and on the same page. It's challenging and all so much fun to play.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

I feel like you could listen to any Bon Iver song and it would make you cry. They're all so heart-wrenching.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

I love soul music.

Break-up albums are the best kind.

When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.

I don't like party music. I like emotional music.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling.

I love early blues like Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. I listened to the way these people sang, and it was just beautiful - straight from the soul. That, for me, was an inspiration.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.