Quotes About Expression

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it's as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.