Leo Ornstein Quotes

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

The idea - or, if you like, the need - to write and record 'Lash Out' was born of a feeling within me.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.