Quotes About Empowerment

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.