Quotes About Expression

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around. I pick up my husband's tin whistle sometimes. He's really proficient, but it's about the second most annoying instrument - after the banjo - if you don't know how to play it.

I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.

If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

The white T-shirt is like a blank canvas - eternally versatile.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.

When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

Jewelry isn't a necessity, but sometimes it can bring out my fashion. Sometimes if I'm wearing very dark clothes, like darker colored, black, anything like that, and I put white jewelry on top, it look crazy because it's like, the contrast of the diamonds and the dark clothes.

White paint is my marble.

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.