Quotes About Expression

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.