Richie Sambora Quotes

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

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

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different.

You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.