Patty Loveless Quotes

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

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

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

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.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

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

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Making music is fantastic.

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.

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.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

Music is hugely important to me.