Quotes About Connection

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Music is the universal language.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I feel like I've been blessed to be able to travel with this music, so I always try to get down with the locals.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

Music is an incitement to love.

Music has always been transnational.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.