Andrew Weil Quotes

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

The power of music is real.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

The people need to feel the music.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.