Quotes About Expression

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.