Stephen Hough Quotes

Music is always a commentary on society.

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

The beauty of music is that it is a universal language. I truly believe it knows no boundaries of any kind.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

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 has as many roles as people make it.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it can instantly do something to you. It has the power to move you.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

My sole intent is to spread love through music - to let people know the power of music.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it.