Quotes About Expression

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

I got country music in me.

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.