Quotes About Expression

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

The greatest DJ is one who can live within the formula and make it sound .... as if he producing and pulling the music all by himself.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.