Quotes About Expression

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

See the music, hear the dance.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.