Inspiring Music Quotes

It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in the audience to that song, and that's so much more interesting to me than making someone just jump up and down.

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

Music is very inspiring to me because "true" music releases a true energy that is just inspiring. It's like when you see a beautiful painting or a wonderful film. You just receive this creative energy, and all of a sudden you want to create too.

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

What gives my art the most meaning is when I can connect with others through it. When people say that my music has helped them, or it makes them feel good, or it inspires them, that is what gives my art lasting meaning to me.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

I think that the pivotal point of me in terms of the choral stuff is that I was involved in this provincial choir at 16 or 17. We went and played in churches and convention centres. The music we got to do was so inspiring for me.

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.