Quotes About Expression

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.