Music Feeling Quotes

Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.

With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have a feeling in it, where it feels warm, or feels epic. I like to play with that in my music as well, there will always be a piano chord or something underneath it to make you feel at home. I always try and make sure even with vocals and layering that you still feel like you know me, no matter whether you're into grime or hip hop.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

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

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

I'll tell you what's crazy: Nobody in my family is musically inclined, no form, fashion, anything. I always had some type of connection to music though. This was long before I ever knew that I could sing, or I ever even tried to start singing. It was something different, man, it made me feel some type of way.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Ultimately, you're looking for a soulful experience when you listen to any form music.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.