Capture Quote by Tony Snow

Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.

— Ardeth Kapp

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

— Simon Rattle

I don't get too political in my music, because some people tend to get bored with the message: I say what's necessary and leave…

— Big Daddy Kane

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets…

— Dani Shapiro

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

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

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

— Brian Eno

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point…

— Iggy Pop

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

— Jean Cocteau

“Great music stops the inner turmoil of thought and allows the mind to seek its natural state of joy. Music frees our minds and…

— Wu Wei