“It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.” IfsEmotionalMusicianMusic IsBetrayalBetrayGood BusinessBlackmail Author:Tori Amos
“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingLevelsEmotionalMusic IsIntellectualDirectAbstractSimilarityIndirect Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being able to manipulate that is a really easy way to connect with people.” PeopleWayWholeAbleHateSongEasyEmotionalMusic IsBasesAttachmentManipulateEasy Way Author:Girl Talk
“Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.” PeopleWayPlayFeelingsSongMusicEmotionalMusic IsResponsibleSingers Author:John Lennon
“Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.” PeopleFeelsWellsFeltJourneyHavensEmotionalMusic IsDance Music Author:Steve Aoki
“Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.” PeopleIfsCareFilmEmotionalDegreesMusic IsBirdGood ThingsTrackViewersBrad Author:Michael Giacchino
“Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.” FormAchieveEffectsEmotionalExpressionMusic IsHarmonyExtraordinaryExtremesComposerDynamicsWagnerOrchestration Author:Daniel Barenboim
“My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.” WantReasonPlayEmotionEmotionalMusic IsReason WhyPackages Author:Hiromi
“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.” ThinkingDoeHandsJobsEnvironmentEmotionalParticularMaterialsHonorMusicianMusic IsAbstractionImperativesAccommodateLyricalUpper Hand Author:Sufjan Stevens
“Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.” SoulEmotionalMusic Is Author:Greg Lake
“Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.” FeelsWritingSometimesPlayActorsPerfectRoomsEmotionalHugeSceneMusic IsSmartPartnersRhythmCollectionsZoneHelpfulIpods Author:Nancy Meyers
“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsRealStuffEmotionEmotionalMusic IsNotesRelateStringsMelodyBeing RealTopicsChordsReal Music Author:Sam McCandless
“Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.” ThinkingWritingArtStoriesBeautifulEmotionalTenMusic IsHappeningsPercentThings HappenNineUnconsciousBeautiful ThingsNinetyNinety NineBest Art Author:T.C. Boyle
“For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.” PeopleWorldWayWantWritingPiecesEmotionalMusic IsConcreteProcessingWriting MusicInaccessibleSuppressingGiraffe Author:Missy Mazzoli
“As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.” LostEmotionalComputerMusic IsImpact Author:Beck
“It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.” WayKindStoriesBehindsOne ThingEmotionalMusic IsReactionsAll KindsProvokingEmotional Reactions Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.” ThinkingArtBeautifulFormDifficultLevelsPiecesEmotionalMusic IsImplicitAvant Garde Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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.” EmotionalListeningMusic IsMayer Author:Camila Cabello
“My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.” WantWritingFirstsPersonsStoriesFallHonestEmotionalMusic IsFirst TimePaintFalling In LovePainfulVivid Author:Adrian Marcel
“I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or three songs, over and over and over. I sort of find the emotional pitch of the piece, and then match music to it, and then the music becomes a shortcut to the feeling, so I can enter it and work anywhere: on planes, cafes, at work, the train.” WritingSometimesFeelingsSongEmotionalMusic IsTrainEssaysListening To Music Author:Melissa Febos
“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.” ThinkingMeanDifferentSongInterestingEmotionalMusic IsAffairCartoon Author:Damon Albarn
“I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music. I wonder if it's going to go back to that. Sometimes I think it has to. As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSometimesI BelieveWonderEmotionalMusic IsArguingEnjoyment Author:Beck