Quotes About Expression

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is me and I am SHINee.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.