Quotes About Expression

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Every language has its own music.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.