We're not trying to change the world; just music.


Jonathan Davis

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Music can't change the world.
BOB GELDOF
As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.
HENRY PETROSKI
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
LADY GAGA
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t...
GEORGE STRAIT
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of Ameri...
CASSANDRA WILSON
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO
Music can't change the world.
BOB GELDOF
I am trying to change the world.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Our house composer, Jonathan Richards wrote the script and music, trying to create something that wa...
ANGELA CRING
We were not trying to be disruptive. We were just trying to remind the public.
JACK BURGESS
This is terrific news for the Rod Smith campaign. What Davis is trying to do is just silliness. It's...
MARC FARINELLA
They (the blocked punts) were a change of momentum. It was key timing on our part because they were ...
LANCE WHITESIDE
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is...
LENNY KRAVITZ
Instead of trying to change the world, rebuild it in code...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE
I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and ex...
LEE DEWYZE
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
BIBLE
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
ICE CUBE
If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.
BAUVARD
You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.
NAYVADIUS CASH
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and ...
WYNONNA JUDD
We had opportunities to make an album before but they were trying to change what we were doing, ... ...
CARLOS GONZALEZ
'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it'...
ERIK GRIFFIN
That was fun. I wasn't playing like we were trying to win the world championship or the World Cup .....
CARLOS ZAMBRANO
All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. T...
SONU NIGAM
Al Davis is a rebel just like Randy [Moss] is, and when you get two rebels together, they make swee...
JIM BROWN
I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS
All I want to do is change the world.
W. CLEMENT STONE
We're realistic about knowing that we're not out to hit the mainstream, ... We're trying to make gre...
STEPHEN MALKMUS
Just because we went (to Columbia) didn't mean that we were going to change who we are. We were read...
CLAUDIO SANCHEZ
World will change for betterment only when HEART of majority of individuals grows in size to accomod...
ANUJ SOMANY
We talk about wanting to change the world, and we often picture this as a lofty goal reached only by...
ROSIE BLYTHE
The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed...
MALINDA LO
Almost all people talk vociferously and publicly about the change until their financial position cha...
ANUJ SOMANY
Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to d...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
WILL CHAMPION
It's our responsibility to cater to the needs of people who come and enjoy our work who have the...
BEN HOPKINS
I'm trying to drag them into finding the market for this project. I love world music.
CHRIS BLACKWELL
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
We're not trying to change anyone's mind.
BERNIE RONAN
He's working very, very fast, trying to present the world with a fait accompli, to change the demogr...
WESLEY CLARK
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to ...
DOROTHY ALLISON
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided...
BIBLE
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the...
PHIL SPECTOR
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
BOB MARLEY
To change the world, you need to understand and accept that somethings doesn't change and other thin...
MINA TADROS
Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
TAMORA PIERCE
I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country arti...
SAM HUNT
I want to just change how people look at music and artists.
BENNY CASSETTE
...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
ITALO CALVINO
Art is not meant to change the world.
JR
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
STEVE JOBS
I can't change the world. I have to fix me.
BIJOU PHILLIPS
I am an engineer and hoping not just to change the world but also to touch human hearts.
NATHANIEL E. QUIMADA
You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somones world.
ETHAN GARV**
I applaud the Marian Anderson Award selection panel for identifying two outstanding individuals, Rub...
JOHN STREET
Following the triumph over Goliath at Stanford Stadium, UC-Davis announced it would change its name ...
BUD WITHERS
Yeah. It's impossible. Giving up just like that before you even started. Not even trying to change, ...
KAYORU
If (Davis) feels it's him against the world, it's him that pitted himself against the world.
CASEY FITZRANDOLPH
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR
You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. ...
TOM ROBBINS
We can not change the world, because we simply do not want to change ourselves.
VICTOR WERNET
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE
Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhoo...
AUTUMN REESER
Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yoursel...
SRI CHINMOY
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spir...
WOODROW WILSON
The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; colle...
MATTHEW A. PETTI
You may not have the power to change the whole world ,but you have the power to change someones whol...
LILLIAN L.ELIE
One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Auto...
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN
We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world.
BROOKE WARRICK
I’m just trying to do my part to save the world.
J. CORNELL MICHEL
Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
ABBEY CLANCY
I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - w...
CRISTIANO RONALDO
We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.
KRISTI BOWMAN
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually s...
BRANDON SANDERSON
I think both (Davis and Reynolds) were well-pleased with the presentation. I think it covered just w...
WADE GUTMAN
Jonathan is just a joy to coach. Some great players you just tolerate. They stay apart from the rest...
MARCO ARMIJO
If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in...
KELLIE ELMORE
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and m...
L.M. ELLIOTT
We got together to play for the love of music, not because it gives us something to take to the bank...
DAVID BEHM
I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music.
AWKWAFINA
Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be...
JONNY GREENWOOD
We're just trying to be consistent. We're not a team that's been consistent, nor were we tonight.
JACKIE SANCHEZ
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them...
FERDINAND MARCOS
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute ...
CASSANDRA WILSON
It's too late to change the world, but, hopefully it's not too late to change ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even en...
DONOVAN BAILEY
It's not trying to be either negative or positive; (our music) is just a glimpse of what life looks ...
ROBERT HENDERSON
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a diff...
ALAN RICKMAN
A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over.
SARAH J. MAAS
I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe...
JAY-Z
Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi...
PSY
I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or ...
WAYNE COYNE
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a n...
JONATHAN MILLER
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar re...
JONATHAN RABAN
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHAN KOZOL
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
JONATHAN MILLER
For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
JONATHAN WESTOVER
I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations,
JONATHAN KOZOL
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN