Quotes About Transformation

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.

Let God have you, and let God love you - and don't be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you've never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

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 hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

I love reinventing my music and myself as well, and that's something my fans love about me.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage.

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.