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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. -- Sade Adu
The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. -- Unarine Ramaru
I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes. -- Tom Jenkinson
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart. -- Shinichi Suzuki
Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. -- Michael Franti
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. -- Igor Stravinsky
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music. -- Macklemore
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. -- Wynonna Judd
Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. -- Michael Franti
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. -- Bill Gates
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. -- Benjamin Hoff
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music. -- Andrea Bocelli
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. -- Brian Ferneyhough
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything. -- Serj Tankian
I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another. -- Richie Havens
Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose. -- Naturi Naughton
Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about. -- Colbie Caillat
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well. -- Yo-Yo Ma
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about. -- Xavier Rudd
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. -- Eddie Vedder
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy. -- Jon Landau
The most powerful music is music with purpose. -- Tom Morello
Music's at its best when it has a purpose. -- Eddie Vedder
Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music. -- Arnold Schoenberg
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. -- Nat King Cole
I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful. -- Darren Fletcher
Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world... -- Colbie Caillat
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity... -- Pablo Casals
In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. -- Pete Townshend
I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music. -- Brandy Norwood
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. -- Alfred Austin
I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose. -- Piggy D.
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. -- Mark McMorris
If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer. -- Beck

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