Quotes About Expression

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Music isn't just heard, it is felt.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.