Quotes About Expression

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

It's just seems life without music would be death.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

Music is the 5th gospel.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.