Stephen Dunn Quotes

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

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.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

Music is my heart.

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

Music is like the soul of the planet.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.