Quotes About Expression

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

If there is no dance, there is not music.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar