Quotes About Expression

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

I always enjoyed singing but I was never convinced that I had a big voice like that, that was distinctive, I just thought I can sing in the choir.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

Not that I want to compare myself with the great Madhubala. But in our own completely distinctive and different ways, both Anarkali in 'Mughal-e-Azam' and Rewa in 'Naach' express the essence of life through dance.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in Amsterdam when I was about 21.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

I have never felt like a diva!

I don't want to be difficult personally. On stage is the right place for a diva.

Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.

The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.