Quotes About Expression

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.