77 Quotes About Power-of-music

And she sang. Perhaps she'd never stop, for it was rather freeing, this blissful, empowered place where she was nothing but rhythm and resonance.

Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.

The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope.

The husband is Japanese, the mother white, their son unearthly beautiful. He's a cellist; in the warm months, he rehearses with the parlor windows thrown open, ... This past summer, his music wandered toward the house, approached my living room, knocked politely on the glass: Let me in. I didn't, couldn't — I never open the windows, never — but still I could hear it murmuring, pleading: Let me in. Let me in!

There's something about the transporting capacity of music, something about it's odd but undeniable ability to create a collective experience by firing our individual imaginations, that's more likely to open our minds and our hearts to competing points of view.

You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty pop song makes them feel good, about themselves and the world. And as long as that shitty pop song doesn’t infringe upon your rights to rock out to, I don’t know, Subway Sect, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, or whichever old-ass band it is you worship, then who cares?

Music is a supernatural force on the earth. It has the power to transform the heart and mind.