Quotes About Expression

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Nobody can hear you read music.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.