Quotes About Expression

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

I've been loving music all my life.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.