Quotes About Connection

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Music is one big thing to me.

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just change my world in seconds.

I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that way too.'

When you're working with vibes the music comes right in. The blend is perfect. So to me it was never a mismatch. It was actually pretty complementary.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.