Quotes About Expression

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Music can't change the world.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Architecture is petrified music.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.