You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
— Jerry Garcia
Unique Power Of Music quotations
The power of music to integrate and cure.
. . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound.
He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Music can change the world.
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power.
A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.
Art is the heart's explosion on the world.
Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.
...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.
I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
The power of nature is what all art strives to be.
The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people.
The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.
Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men.
Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together.
.. Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Jazz I regard as an American folk music;
not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.