Don Winslow Quotes

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

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.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

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.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

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.

When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.

Baseball is a great example of the cultural ties between the United States and Cuba and a powerful reminder of the shared experience between people that transcends our difficult history.

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

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

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as the Muslim - when you see me as Adeel Alam and not just the character on TV - when you see past all of that, we are all the same, and we are all just one.