Ian Somerhalder Quotes

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing is, from it's creation. I don't believe that can be done. We're all part of this creative force.

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.

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")