Quotes About Expression

That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.

A mix tape steals these moments from all over the musical cosmos, and splices them into a whole new groove.

but somehow, it's part of why Stevie Nicks means so much to us. It's why we hear our own broken forevers in this music, why we hear our own emotional avalanches in her songs. When she rides the landslide, she rides it all the way down, and she takes us down with her.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...

A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psychosomatic illness, neurotic suffering, and accidents are very low-grade ways of living out the shadow. Ceremony and ritual are a far more intelligent means of accomplishing the same thing. Ceremonies

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Silence is the Buddha's greatest expression. It's the Buddha's great teaching, what the Hindus call "You are That" in the Upanishads. "You are the ultimate reality. You are God!" the Hindus boldly declare. But the Buddha's way of affirming that fact is by being silent, because if you are that, after all, if you are what the theists think is God, you already know it yourself. (p. 15)

find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

Sloppy language is a kind of disloyalty to humanity, a kind of lying. Talent

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.