Quotes About Community

Be thankful that you are on your feet, for there are people who can't even walk down the street. - RVM.

You have to look at your life, as a person who must walk with the many, but develop yourselve to be one on the few

Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.