Dan Rather Quotes

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

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

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Art is not meant to change the world.

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

I really believe in the power of music.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Music is the universal language that everyone can understand.

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

The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.

As responsible artists, it's our duty to let the youth know the importance of devotional music.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

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.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.