Quotes About Expression

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.