Quotes About Expression

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

Music is like my security blanket.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Music should never be a job. It should be your hopes, your dreams and everything you believe in.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.