Quotes About Expression

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music is the soundtrack to every good and bad time we will ever have.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.