RJ Cyler Quotes

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

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

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.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

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.

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

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

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

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.

I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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 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 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.

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.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

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.

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.