Quotes About Music

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).