Quotes About Community

The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

Live music is better.

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

The music business used to be filled with people who love music.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

It's awesome to have friends among the country music community that you know are looking out for you and that you are excited to get to see on the road.

The NRA isn't a boogeyman organization behind a curtain. The NRA is made up of millions of people who believe in the Second Amendment and the organization is very closely connected to the country music community.

Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

I think the impact my music has had on dance music fans is to bring out their inner love for dancing and having a good time.

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

I definitely like making my friends in the music industry.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

I want to be a a good influence to other people and in the music scene.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.