We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.
All change begins with someone having a thought.
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.
I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.
The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!
We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.
As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.