Quotes About Inspiration

We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

My object is to make people happy with our music.

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.

It's nice to have fans who want and need our music.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.

We've always believed in our music.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.

At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.

I think... people are inspired by our music, and that's cool. We all borrow each other's music.

It feels wonderful that people, both young and old, listen to our music, and that it still makes an impact.

One reason we've been able to do what we do is that we never put our music into any kind of historical perspective.

I don't think everyone is 100% comfortable in their own skin, but we're learning to love ourselves more and more, and that's what we represent in our music.

All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book.

I believe in the greatness of our people.

That's one of the best things about my job: I get to tell the world about the innovative and meaningful things our people are doing every day.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.