Milan Kundera Quotes

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

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

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

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it can instantly do something to you. It has the power to move you.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.