Quotes About Impact

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.