Jennifer Warnes Quotes

Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

It's the music that brings us together.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

I was born loving music. It was always my friend.

Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved.

There's a kind of intimacy that can happen between musicians, and if they're people you enjoy and respect as humans, that intimacy is a real privilege.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.