Donovan Quotes

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

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

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 must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world... music is... to being... to life.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

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

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

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

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Music is my religion.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

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.