Music is a tool that brings people together.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

D-Nice has shown us what is possible and how music can bring people together and virtual parties.

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

I think if you can get the right bunch of people together, and you're in the room and it just feels right, then the music will come.

One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

Through our concerts and tours, we learned that our music is capable of bringing people together, breaking borders and genres. To symbolize all of that, we decided to sing 'The One' in English.

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos.

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix races. It's gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.

Venues had segregated seating - but when Chuck Berry fused together blues, boogie-woogie and country music, it caused people not to be able to sit still. They bounced up out of their seats, knocking over ropes, dancing together.

But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

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