Quotes About Expression

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

Never play anything the same way twice.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

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