Best Quote by Dave Brubeck

I think in work like 'Passion According to St Luke,' which I wrote when the Church was being persecuted by the Communist regime, it…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music…

— Miyavi

I wanted to write a song that was outright against war, in any form.

— Declan McKenna

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

— Simon Rattle

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

— Leonard Bernstein

In times of joy and sorrow, love or hate, peace and unrest, music has always been an important outlet for expressing our emotions individually…

— David Bryan

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a…

— Henry Rollins

I love music with a violence and a fury that feels unqualified.

— Jack Conte

I truly believe that music or art, in general, is the only thing that can unify a world that is plagued by war and…

— Ilaiyaraaja

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

— Horace Silver

Music can lift the spirit; it can make you cry. Soldiers have marched into battle to music. It's a powerful thing.

— Jools Holland

I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse…

— Marilyn Manson