Quotes About Expression

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.