Dave Gahan Quotes

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

What's love without a soundtrack, you know?

It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

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.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.

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.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.

I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Music inflames temperament.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.