Greg Mottola Quotes

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.

If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.

There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.