Imperatives Quote by Robert Davi

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning.…

— Sufjan Stevens

Music with a message is the music we love. Good vibrations. Positivity. Conscious influence of the heart and the mind and the soul.

— Skip Marley

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

— Damon Albarn

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me -…

— Al Green

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

— Jack Johnson

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

— Sheryl Crow

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain…

— Brian Eno

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

— Elizabeth Smart

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Sometimes music speaks what you feel inside.

— Anonymous

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden…

— Conor Oberst

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music…

— Courtney Barnett