Quotes About Expression

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing