Quotes About Expression

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Flowers are my music.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of