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Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.
I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.
I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.
I want people to feel confident when listening to my music.
I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.
No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.
I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.
I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.
The whole reason I do what I do, both in music and acting, is to make people feel something, to really relate to what I do on a personal level.
As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.
I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.
I want to remind people that there is no soundtrack in 'Southland;' there is no scored music or soundtrack telling you what you're supposed to feel.
I want people to listen to my music and everyone to feel included, and I think it's kind of working because all my audiences are always so colorful.
To be honest, I've found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven't been made to feel like an outsider.
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.
You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.
Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.
When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodies and all that.
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
I think I'll be doing music until I die, regardless of whether I'm popular or not. If I ever feel like people aren't receiving my music well anymore, I'll probably go to the backroads and become an executive or just sign artists.
I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.
I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.