Why Does Music Matter?
Music holds profound significance for all of us.
It has the power to evoke emotions and create connections.
Music is the universal form of artistic expression.
It moves us to the core.
“Music is connection. Music turns strangers into friends and friends into family.”
— Mick Hellman, Wreckless Strangers
“Music gives people a deeper level of connection, it’s the place that we meet all of the important people in our lives. We see it move through people and transcend space and time.”
—Billy Thompson, Ten Foot Tiger
“Music is beyond us. It may be the only superpower we have as humans.”
— Dan Green, Ten Foot Tiger
“Music is an energy regulator. You get everyone together in a room and everyone is dancing together and high-fiving.
If it isn’t like that I don’t want it!.”
— Amber Morris,
Wreckless Strangers
“Music matters to me because I believe music is the science of making people feel. It’s what people can’t explain, it’s like magic. It’s the universal language, everyone knows that.
I have been all around the world and it’s the only thing everyone understands. It brings people with different views, people that may hate each other together. Music is the common thread. I don’t think anyone on earth can go a day without listen to music.”
— Nikki Glaspie, The Nth Power
“If magic exists in this world, playing music is the closest I’ll ever come to being a magician.”
— Eric Lefevers, Smokey the Groove
“Music is community, connection… and disconnection to the world around us.”
— Samaria Grace, Chico, CA
"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking."
– Nina Simone
"Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is."
– George Clinton
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
– Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand."
– Stevie Wonder
"Music to me is like breathing. I don’t get tired of breathing, I don’t get tired of music."
– Johnny Cash
"Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones."
– Keith Richards
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
– Leonard Bernstein
"Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real."
– Tom Petty
“Music makes the world a better place. It brings us together. Music is community.”
— Mikey Palmer, Ten Foot Tiger
“Music matters because it is the most fundamental human form of expression. And when aliens come down from space, that’s what they are going to be most interested in. ”
— Joshua Zucker,
Wreckless Strangers
“Live life, play music. The rest is bullshit.”
— Eric Weber, Funky Jugglers
“Give me one reason why music doesn’t matter…
I’ll wait forever.”
— Don Parrish, Bran Crown
“Music matters because it’s both rational and emotional. It uses both sides of the brain. ”
— David Noble,
Wreckless Strangers
“Music is serious shit. It isn’t just life-affirming; it’s part of the universal source code. It isn’t an artistic frivolity; it’s the common thread connecting all humanity.
It doesn’t even belong to the artists who create
it; it just is.”
— C. C. Anton, Chico, CA
