LZ Granderson Quotes

Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

People don't do the Macarena together. Or if they do, they do it to get closer, to get together. It's the same thing with the Electric Slide.

When people get emotional and sing the song with you - it's an incredible thing.

That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.

We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

I've been a part of a couple of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia nights, and watching the Dead's fan base be so passionate reminds me of what Jerry was so much about, making the community a better place.

Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart.

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

My sole intent is to spread love through music - to let people know the power of music.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.