Quotes About Expression

The music is everything to me.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.