Quotes About Expression

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Music is only love looking for words.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.