Emotion Quote by Taylor Swift

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

— Little Richard

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the…

— Jens Lekman

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could…

— Joey Badass

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

— Bruce Springsteen

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…

— Jonathan Meiburg

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if…

— Bob Dylan

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what…

— Lyle Lovett

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described…

— Emily Haines

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.'…

— Andrae Crouch

Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really…

— Nicole Atkins

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

— Kacey Musgraves

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the…

— Marilyn Manson