Jay Griffiths Quotes

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

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

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I think what people like about my channel is that I am not perfect. I always point to my pimple, my bad hair day... people relate to that. They are watching somebody who is exactly like them and talking about things that they experience as well.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

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.

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.

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.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who has lived with the music. It's kind of like an experience you share. I'm on stage performing it, but they're singing the words, too.

No matter what kinds of problems we might be going through, or what kinds of problems the world might be going through, music is the place where we can all get along. We can all jam.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

One of the things that I think is special about DJing is creating this atmosphere of collectiveness, as if to say, 'We're all in this together.'

When people get emotional and sing the song with you - it's an incredible thing.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.