Michael Jackson Quotes

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

Logic is no answer to passion.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

Whenever I make music, I just make it depending on however I feel at that moment and what I'm getting inspiration from, so it depends - whatever, it's just my mood.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos. First impressions are always the most important. When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don't think they're important.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.