David Blaine Quotes

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who create it.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

I really believe in the power of music.

When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there's an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

The power and reach of music should never be underestimated.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.

I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways, but it also creates a meditative space. I just feel like I can play it, and it reaches people.

Anyone in any part of the country will connect with 'Laagi'… because it has very strong emotions.

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

'Parsifal' is one of the great examples in art of a work that transcends the personality of the man who wrote it.

The audiences everywhere feel the same emotions. That's why when movies do well in an industry, they become popular all over.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.