Quotes About Music

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with hopes of being on Broadway!

I truly enjoyed my time with Manson and have the greatest respect for the incredible fans. I am grateful to have contributed over two dozen songs to his projects. It was a great creative outlet for me at that point in my career.

I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.

There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

When you write a lot of songs, sometimes you don't have a place for them, and you need an outlet for them.

Music is the outlet for me because when I do step into the studio, I feel no barriers.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

In my daily life, I tend to be very literal and unsuperstitious. But music gives me an outlet to be very emotional.

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Music was my only outlet as a teenager. I always had the gift of music; I was singing at the age of four.

Musically, I feel like the band was always my outlet.

I write books and songs and all sorts of bits and pieces on the side. It's important to have that creative outlet - I'm really passionate about it.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

I came up with a lot of characters when I was growing up that were just creative outlets, and then, at one point, I came across Gus Dapperton in the back of my head when I was making music.

I want to write music that will outlive me.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

I love Memphis, and just being there affects one's outlook.