Quotes About Music

Music has been my way of expressing what I've been feeling.

When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things - why should I be limited in expressing myself? He's creative, so why shouldn't my music be creative, too?

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way.

No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren't as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

It's harder and harder to sell records now. You've got to give extra value. You've got to give people a reason to go out and buy it rather than burn a friend's copy.

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.