Quotes About Expression

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.