Jim Croce Quotes

Music is universal; it's healing.

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 should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

Music is important.

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

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

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

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.

Music - it speaks to everyone. Music speaks to everyone on so many different levels.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.