Slash Quotes

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Music inspires me.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Music is the soul of language.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

My heart and soul is still music.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

Music is the universal language of mankind.