Music as Communication Quotes

I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's tricky because a lot of music is political, even if it's not overtly so. But my music isn't that; it's about a feeling.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

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

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

A lot of people make music to sell music. I don't just sell music. I am essentially, I guess the word I want to use is, it's like an energetic transaction.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

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