Musical Purpose Quotes

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

It's definitely a joy when you make a record to know you are doing it for the right reasons: You want to do it and that you think you have something valid to offer.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, 'I wonder if I can do that,' and it was all very personal. It was more that once I'd finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.