Music as a Medium Quotes

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

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.

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Music should never be harmless.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

If you want to know more about who I am, just listen to my music.

You find out about me because of my music, and that's how I want to keep it.

I think if you can affect somebody's life with one song, that's such a powerful tool to reach millions of people on so many different levels.

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.