Music as a Form of Communication Quotes

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

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

When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I truly think that's what music is about. It's not about what you look like or what happened yesterday; it's truly about how the music speaks to you.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn't know what he's talking about in all of his tracks, but I'm a fan. It's rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I'm convinced that my music can work in the U.S.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my director's chair. I find playing music is a very direct way to communicate with actors and the crew, especially those crew members who are on the periphery of the set. I like dancing on set too, it's a good way to release tension.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.

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

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.