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Quotes About Expression

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
~ Etta James
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
~ Johannes Brahms
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
~ Zedd
Mozart is the incarnation of music.
~ Joseph Haydn
Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.
~ Chris Tomlin
There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.
~ Pete Doherty
True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse
~ Pat Martino
House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.
~ Frankie Knuckles
Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
~ Sean Paul
Music saved my life and music saves me still...
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
~ Duke Ellington
It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
~ John Frusciante
Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.
~ Jennifer Lee
Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.
~ Herbert von Karajan
We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.
~ Joey Ramone
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
~ Brian Jones
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
~ Edward Albee
I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.
~ Phil Anselmo
My music is not lovely.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
~ James Brown
If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.
~ Kim Nam-joon
It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.
~ David Draiman
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.
~ Pete Seeger