Quotes about Connection Through Music

I gotta say, I'm a huge Chris Stapleton fan.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.

How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

...music is the key to life

our place is known by the songs that give birth, name us and bring us home.

Live music is healthy.

I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

I'm a huge fan of the Chainsmokers - like, huge. Like, I would love to collaborate with them.

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

There are so many elements that make 'Orange' spectacular - the writing, the acting, what we talk about - but we can't neglect the music of the show. It sets a fantastic tone.

band, and it was as if, instead of conversation, he was talking to me through these more exotic instruments.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience.

Er weckt in mir die Sehnsucht, und obwohl er sich nach Feldern seht und ich nach Straßen, steckt er mich an. Es ist so wie mit den Liedern der Heimat: wenn einer sein Volkslied anstimmt, singt der andere sein eigenes, und die verschiedenen Melodien werden ähnlich, und alle sind nur wie verschiedene Instrumente einer Kapelle.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.

Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.

I trust no one who hasn't time for music.

We're the therapists pumping through your speakers delivering just what you need.

Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.