Quotes About Expression

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Music is interior decoration.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

My ambition was to live like music.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Put out great music, and that's that