Top 100 Quotes About Power Of Music
#2. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#3. Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.
Nelson Mandela
#4. Music ... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
#7. Music is a second language to my heart.
Mara Arps
#8. There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
Pete Seeger
#11. Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
LZ Granderson
#12. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..
Pablo Casals
#13. Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
Margot Benary-Isbert
#14. Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
Chuck Berry
#16. Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.
Bill Frisell
#17. Music is the power of motivation, love it for a reason.
Korey Miracle
#18. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
#20. I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.
Henry Rollins
#21. As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
Trey Anastasio
#24. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
Nina LaCour
#25. There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
E.L. Doctorow
#26. But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
Michael Hutchence
#27. Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
C. A. Bartol
#28. Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.
Jean Kilbourne
#29. Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.
Aubertine Woodward Moore
#30. Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
Helen Thompson
#31. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
#32. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
#33. When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice
and many voices have to be suggested.
Pablo Casals
#34. Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
Paul Epworth
#35. There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.
Devendra Banhart
#36. The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace
Oliver Sacks
#37. Underneath the picture of a really old guy, Lisa read, "Chess, like music and love, has the power to make men happy.
Jesse Kraai
#38. To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!
Ray Comfort
#39. One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
Monica Crowley
#40. Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
Paul Gauguin
#41. Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.
Terry Teachout
#42. You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
Maynard James Keenan
#43. We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.
David Brooks
#44. A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.
Vinny Appice
#45. Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.
Luther Allison
#46. Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#47. I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise ... No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.
Zooey Deschanel
#48. I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.
Cameron Crowe
#49. The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
Neil Diamond
#51. Somewhere along the line, music became 'content' ... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
Dave Sitek
#52. I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no.
Billy Graham
#53. [On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
Dagmar Godowsky
#54. Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.
Johnny Weir
#56. Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
Douglas Adams
#57. Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Elton John
#58. We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#60. I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.
Robin Zander
#61. Diogo and the other OPA irregulars had breached a high-value research station, faced down one of the most powerful and evil corporations in a history of power and evil. And now they were making music from the screams of the dying.
James S.A. Corey
#62. Never forget the power of music. Spend a little time with it every day,
Robin S. Sharma
#63. I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
Chuck Klosterman
#64. The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
Adam Levine
#65. Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!
J.K. Rowling
#66. Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
Aristotle.
#67. The power of classical music turns my words into fire.
A.D. Posey
#68. My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
Pia Toscano
#69. I wanted deliverance, the loss of myself. The capacity to be inside that music. It was the same power and sensation you feel when a wave takes you up and pushes you somewhere else.
Kim Gordon
#70. A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
Colbie Caillat
#71. Your voice is the sweetest music and the sound of your smile is the ecstasy of my life.
Debasish Mridha
#72. If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.
Josh Groban
#73. I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#74. No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
Stevie Wonder
#75. The power of music to integrate and cure ... is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Oliver Sacks
#76. The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you've got more energy just from the music. And, I've never seen it fail. It's good for ya; real good for ya.
Levon Helm
#77. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Eric Clapton
#78. We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
Conor Oberst
#79. That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
Thomas Hardy
#80. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.
Lita Ford
#81. I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.
Oliver Sacks
#82. I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
Madi Diaz
#83. Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
Jonny Greenwood
#84. It feels like I am covering all aspects of what I do and operating in the gift God gave me. I believe God has freed me up to go in some other places because I am responsible and understand the power of music.
Regina Belle
#85. A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds
music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts
can lift a community.
Martin O'Malley
#86. The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt
#87. Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.
Alanis Morissette
#88. Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.
Leo Tolstoy
#89. You have music in your heart; just listen in the deep silence to reveal it.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.
John Henry Newman
#91. The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
Marketa Irglova
#92. I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.
Michael Azerrad
#93. Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
Mark Twain
#94. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Fripp
#96. Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
Katherine Neville
#97. We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.
Bruce Springsteen
#98. Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite and ineffable joy.
Debasish Mridha
#100. I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.
Kyp Malone
