Lamar Alexander Quotes

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.