Quotes About Expression

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Music is the pathway to the heart.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

Music has no limits of a life-span.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.