Music Impact Quotes

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

I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people.

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters. Just being out there, I saw what a community mobilizing can accomplish in terms of freedom and how music and my words in my music can play a significant part in that.

I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

It turns out, if you go 1,000 feet down in the ocean, it's really dark, and the animals are really strange, but if you put on some Pink Floyd, it's fantastic.

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.