Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

Empathy is about two people - two people meeting, getting to know each other and tuning in to what the other person is thinking and feeling.

Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.