George Blagden Quotes

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

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.

When I sing, I feel calm.