Morton Gould Quotes

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

Everyone deserves music.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

I understand the power of music, I understand the therapeutic nature of music, the sense of community that music engenders, so I totally understand why it still goes on, choirs come together as a focal point for a community.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.