Quotes About Expression

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

You can't change the music of your soul.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.