Kathleen Hanna Quotes

The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together. Other times, it just takes music.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

Music makes the people come together.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

I want to touch people's lives, and bring them along with me.

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.

I really like the Chris-R scene and of course the "you are tearing me apart Lisa" scene. The reason I love the Chris-R scene is because we worked really hard to finish it. It's not just that though, it brings people together. Everyone is one the roof together by the end of the scene. You see the perspectives of the different characters. I feel like with all the connections in this scene that the room connects the entire world

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.