Slash Quotes

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Music is inarticulate poesy.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

Music is a universal language.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.