Quotes About Expression

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Music is a defining element of character.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

I lived for music since I could think.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.