Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

To know that the people who are singing along at your show actually have something in common with you and can identify with what you've gone through, makes the songs that much more meaningful to sing.

The one thing we can all relate to is family, and family has its traumas sometimes. Sometimes things don't go well for people. Sometimes things are tough. So everybody kind of knows someone who's been in this situation before, and I think that's what makes it work.

Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

Songs really tend to connect.

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar.