Quotes About Expression

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

I want people to have their own visions for the dance. Some generations will sit back and relate to the music. And the young people ...they'll have the dance right in front of them.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.