I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.
My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.
I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool.
Here's where it goes with Led Zeppelin. It didn't matter what was going on around us, because the character of Led Zeppelin's music was so strong.
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.
'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music
Music can get me through anything.
'Pop' is not a bad word. What's more interesting than changing the chemistry in a room in three minutes with a song?
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.
Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.
There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.
I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.
