Quotes About Unity

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

Music has always been transnational.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.