Quotes About Expression

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

To me our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

Life without music is unthinkable.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .