JR Quotes

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

My role as an artist is not to make changes [in society] but to inspire changes.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

Music can't change the world.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

I've always been a believer in the power of art - and music in particular - to inspire change.