Quotes About Empathy

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.

All you need is love.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

If your fans are listening to the music and they can relate to it, they'll relate to it a lot more if it comes from us.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

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