Quotes About Expression

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

Music's another big love of mine.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.