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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. -- Agnes de Mille
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. -- Edgard Varese
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression. -- Nikki Sixx
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about. -- Dwight Yoakam
There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body language. And also with sound design, with music. -- Lynn Shelton
I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing. -- Brandon Boyd
I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression. -- Corey Taylor
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. -- Scott Weiland
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. -- Little Richard
I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression. -- Thomas Dolby
In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be good. It felt out of my control, whereas music suddenly felt like this free expression. It was fun. -- Susanna Hoffs
Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music. -- Aleksey Igudesman
Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. -- Brandon Boyd
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. -- John Drinkwater
Part of my desire to play music was because I wanted to escape the art world and the politics of it; the petty gossip-y art world. But you know, I feel like they're both equal forms of expression. -- Kim Gordon
The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that. -- Michael Kiwanuka
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. -- Michael Schenker
Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music. -- Damian Marley
The most visceral expression of emotion in music. -- Milo Aukerman
Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words. -- Temi Peters
The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments. -- David Gilmour
Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life. -- Paul Winter
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. -- Andrew Hill
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. -- Billy Joel
Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. -- S. Janaki
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. -- David Sanborn
Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music. -- Damian Marley
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.... -- Stephen Gaskin
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. -- Luciano Pavarotti
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being. -- John Coltrane
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music. -- Lester Beall
I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication. -- Jonathan Hull
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes. -- Claude Debussy
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. -- Q-Tip
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. -- Rudolf Steiner
I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression. -- Rachele Brooke Smith
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse. -- Mickey Hart
Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. -- Gwenno
The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. -- Patrick Stump
The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians. -- Matt Cameron
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts. -- Sergei Rachmaninoff
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. -- Ralph Ellison
I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain. -- John C. Reilly
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts. -- Will Durant
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place. -- Charles Duhigg
Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth. -- Frank Sinatra
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. -- Confucius
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. -- Edgar Winter
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. -- Claude Debussy
I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world. -- Adrian Grenier
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel

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