Quotes About Expression

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that I'd like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.

I just want to keep on creating stuff that people can relate to and inspire anyone who feels like their voice isn't heard; being relatable and being as authentic as possible is the whole goal of my production company.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

I want to become an actor whose productions will get people to say, 'there are lives like that,' when they watch me, and I want to become a singer who can tell people's stories.

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a lot of profane music.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.