Quotes About Impact

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

I want girls to hear my music and want to play it again because it made their hearts feel good.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.