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Quotes About Power

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
~ Alyson Noel
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.
~ Emmanuel Jal
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
~ Jonathan Davis
Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.
~ Donald Fagen
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
~ David Bowie
Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.
~ Madonna Ciccone
So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
~ Tori Amos
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.
~ Chuck D
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
~ Wanda Landowska
The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
~ Wallace Stevens
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.
~ Frederick William Faber
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
~ Andres Segovia
Bad music can make you weak.
~ Ry Cooder
As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.
~ Pierce Brosnan
.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands
~ Mike Bloomfield
Songs are more powerful than books.
~ Elvis Costello
Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
~ Sir Arthur Sullivan
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
~ Rob Sheffield
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
~ John Diamond
No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
~ Stevie Wonder
Music can't change the world.
~ Bob Geldof
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
~ Timothy Leary