Quotes About Expression

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Music before all else, and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It's kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.