Quotes About Music

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.

In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Your voice is the sweetest music and the sound of your smile is the ecstasy of my life.

Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.

The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

When you sing, you pray twice.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?