\"They said I was weird, that my look, my choices, my sound, that it wouldn't work,\" Gaga said. \"But music told me not to listen to them.\"
Lopez said music is what reminds her \"where she's come from,\" but also \"of all the places we can go.\"
\"Back in the Bronx, music gave me a reason to dance,\" Lopez said. \"It kept me moving from the block to the big stages and even bigger screens.\"
Jada Pinkett Smith lauded music's ability to help us express our feelings and be heard.
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PHOTO: Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Alicia Keys, former first lady Michelle Obama and Jennifer Lopez at the 61st Grammy Awards Show in Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 2019.
\"We express our pain power and progress through music whether we are creating it or just appreciating it,\" Pinkett Smith said. \"Every voice we hear deserves to be honored and respected.\"
Finally, Obama said music is what has always helped her \"tell her story.\"
\"From the Motown records I wore out on the South Side, to the 'Who Run the World' songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story, and I know that's true for everyone here,\" Obama said to roaring applause.
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PHOTO: Host Alicia Keys attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Feb.10, 2019, in Los Angeles.
She continued: \"Music helps us hear ourselves, our dignities and sorrows, our hopes and joys, it allows us to hear one another, to invite each other in, music shows us that all of it matters, every story, every note within every song.\"
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