Marc Martel Quotes

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I associate creativity with independent music.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

My music is like my freedom space.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

There's a whole different way to express yourself in music and the other arts, and it hopefully complements other things you do in technology.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

Music liberated me.

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

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.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political stuff. I write a weekly feature. I express myself. But when time comes to make music [with the] same absolutely unleashing of total honesty zero inhibitions, it just flows like a stream of conscientiousness because I will not be silenced no matter what my point might be.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.