connection quotes

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

The human heart is the same the world over.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.