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Quotes About Expression

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
~ Plato
Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.
~ John Barbirolli
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.
~ Pattie Boyd
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.
~ Leopold Stokowski
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
~ Charles Ives
Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.
~ Cee Lo Green
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
~ Nina Simone
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
~ John French Sloan
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
~ R. Kelly
If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!
~ Duke Ellington
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
~ Wilkie Collins
Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.
~ Julie Garwood
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.
~ Alan Jackson
I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.
~ Hilary Hahn
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
~ Billy Corgan
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
~ John Lennon
I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
~ Bono, On the Move
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists
~ Gerard Way
Music is another planet.
~ Alphonse Daudet
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
~ Jonny Greenwood