Quotes About Expression

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Music does not live until it's interpreted - with all of its flaws, mannerisms, etc. It needs to be incarnated to be something.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.