Quotes About Expression

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Without a song, each day would be a century.

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

Life without music is no life at all.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.