Quotes About Community

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life.

The southerner talks music.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.