Quotes About Expression

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I can't say that music ever made me do anything.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Bad music can make you weak.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.