Quotes About Freedom

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

You can't take the sky from me.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.