Quotes About Expression

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.

That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.

I don't think I could ever be in a band if we just had to go out there and play the record note for note. I'd give up. I'd become a banker.

It is disappointing to note that you no longer find enough of melodious music in Malayalam films.

I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

I sleep with a notebook next to me, and most nights I sleep with my guitar next to me.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.