Quotes About Expression

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.