Quotes About Expression

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

Music is catharsis for me.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I can't act without music very well.

Music is kind of my everything.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.