David Means Quotes

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.

I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody who lived there.

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.