Quotes About Empathy

All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

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.'

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.

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

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?