Quotes About Connection

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.