Quotes About Expression

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

I thought I would make good songs. Then I made Black Heart' and it was praised a lot. I love doing it and it is my passion.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

When I'm going through something really difficult, I think it's what made me go to the piano for the first time when I was a child. I look at it as a place to pray.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.

I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things.

We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.

I will preach with my brush.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

I've always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.

We don't preach, but we just tell you what we think, and it provokes thought.

Those who preach in rap, don't make no money.