Quotes About Expression

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Taeyang's [music] is like hamburgers. He'll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and shrimp burger.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.