Quotes About Community

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.