Quotes About Expression

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

As my primary language was English, I had to work on my Hindi. I wasn't so comfortable with it.

I've never been short of words. I think my mum will tell you that. I think I've known that since primary school.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

Blake & Murphy and I used to be best friends. They helped me discover who I am. They taught me that Bliss was good, but bad is better. Because of the boys, I was able to really express who I am instead of being the pixie princess I was pretending to be.

I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that.

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.

Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

In a nation as dynamic and diverse as the United States, what makes us great is that our founding principles are rooted in the bedrock principle of freedom, including the right to free expression.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.