Quotes About Connection

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Music is my first love.