“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.” ThinkingSongCultureQualityHeardEmotionalBrotherExcitingHip HopHipsEvolveVulnerabilityHopsQuestsTribesJungleTribe Called Quest Author:Michael Rapaport
“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.” FeelsMeanDifferentSongSubjectsEmotionalAspectMereRepetitionAutonomousWallowing Author:St. Vincent
“You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.” WayWantPlaySongCrazyEmotionalLiftsSoloRight Place Author:Benmont Tench
“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.” FirstsMeanArtRealFormSongEmotionEmotionalComfortMelancholyBeing Real Author:Keren Ann
“Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.” MatterInspirationMotivationalSpiritualSongHealingOne ThingEmotionalComfortLaughterConnectionsCelebrationNot AloneSpiritual ConnectionSong And Dance Author:Brené Brown
“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
“I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.” SongEmotionalStrikesChords Author:Martin Gore
“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.” CountryStatesWholeRealityAmericaBeautifulSongSocialToo MuchIdentityEmotionalBearsCitizensRacismRiversNotesVariousFrighteningFabricUrbanEpicMistakenDoomSpoonsAnthologyClaudiaMistaken Identity Author:Hilton Als
“I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.” IfsThinkingTryingSongLevelsEmotionalCriteria Author:Robbie Robertson
“I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.” ThinkingFeelsWritingI CanHelpingSongVoiceEmotionEmotionalStudiosWriting Songs Author:Miranda Lambert
“I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.” ArtFormSongStrongEmotionalSeasonsTiesFascinatedSeasons Of LifeStrong Emotional Author:Jon Foreman
“Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.” HandsAbleSongWatchesRecordsEmotionalListeningComputerImpactIncrediblesConvenience Author:Dave Grohl
“I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.” IfsLittlesYoungSongFansTearsEmotionalSweetSpringParksMelodyMelancholySuckerRiteLinkin Park Author:Dave Grohl
“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.” PurposeSongChanceAudienceStageEmotionalSingingStartingPerformingConnectingPerforming On Stage Author:Naturi Naughton
“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
“I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.” ThinkingFeelsI CanPainSongFeltCompassionAirCryEmotionalPlanetsBecause I CanArtistry Author:Michael Jackson
“Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.” WantFormSongEmotionalChaosGuttersFreewaysGrandiose Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.” WritingMindStatesSongCoursesHellWeekEmotionalComfortableBases Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.” IfsWayI CanTwoCertainSongTurnsThreeSoundHoursWalksRoomsEmotionalStrangeSwearPsycho Author:Rami Malek