Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

Music is a social act.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.

One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.