Quotes About Community

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

A half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music, and have nothing but fun and music, and I God bless you for it!

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.