Quotes About Expression

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

Music is my first love.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.