Music as a Means of Self-Expression Quotes

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

I am never going to give music up.

I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and the music stuff is kind of a bit of fun on top and something to frame it with.

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

I just don't believe in making music about making music anymore.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

I can't even imagine life without music!

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.