Quotes About Expression

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Music was the voice I didn't have.

From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.