Quotes About Expression

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

Music is an experience, not a science.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.