Quotes About Expression

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

Whenever I work on a song, my focus is on the listeners who follow my type of music.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

Whenever I sing on a different scale, I sound very different. However, I have learned that I can experiment with my tone.

As a musician or composer, whenever I am recording a song I imagine myself sitting beside my piano and singing the song with a little fear that whether I will be able to perform or not.

My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every day, and that's a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else's schedule but a daily schedule.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Badminton court is my territory and that's where I will do most of my talking.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

Freedom rings where opinions clash.