Quotes About Expression

The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Soul music is timeless.

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Music is half the film.