Quotes About Freedom

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Only time will set you free, just like me

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.