Quotes About Expression

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Music is part of being human.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

I smash guitars because I like them.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don't care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.