Trey Parker Quotes

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many different levels.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

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

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.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

We don't make music - it makes us.

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

Music should never be harmless.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.

Music is something I can control.

I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that song playing as a soundtrack to a movie, or even just in the background of someone's life. This all sounds weird, but I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator puts more of themselves into the piece, so when the audience see it, they feel something real, they feel something human, they feel something that's like a person.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.