Quotes About Expression

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

I think that music has an endless life.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.