Quotes About Community

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

I love being part of the ASCAP family of songwriters and composers.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.

There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They're our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let's take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let's redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let's remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

Even at my most depressed and low-functioning, as soon as you put another person in the room with me, I would perk up and be happy to see them.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with.

My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations and expectations you find in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.