Quotes About Expression

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums you can find on iTunes. We tour and all that stuff, so music is very much a part of my life.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Music isn't only a profession.

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.