Kiri Te Kanawa Quotes

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

When people get emotional and sing the song with you - it's an incredible thing.

Football's incomparable to anything else - perhaps only music has that same power to transform society.

At the end of the day, dancing is something that brings people together.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

Music inspires me.

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

Music is a unifying force.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

Dance is so joyous.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

I associate music with fun and joy.

I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

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

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.