Quotes About Expression

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Music Has Been There For Me When No One Else Was And The Only Thing That Stays When Everyone Else Leaves

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.