Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is real. It affects people; it's real.
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal.
Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!
Music is pretty therapeutic.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.
