Music as a Form of Expression Quotes

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.

My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up to me like, 'Man, that 'All My Life' record, man you was talking to me.' That struck me like, 'Damn, maybe people, you never know who's listening and who you might be touching with your music.'

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

We really just live our life. We rap about our life, where we from, our city, what we've been through, from the streets to losing people to being in prison. Everything you hear is reality for us.

I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things - whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising - and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn't a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.