Quotes About Expression

Music is the universal language.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

I don't ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting - I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I love all types of music myself.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.