Quotes About Community

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.