Quotes About Expression

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Even though technically the fundamentals of acting are always the same in every medium, what's different is the size.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some electronic pad.

That's the ideal to me - to make music that is well-crafted and sophisticated technically, but has a soul and a heart that touches a lot of people.

When it comes to R&B singers, people think of soft men and technically I am not a soft man, not your typically R&B cat, so with a song like 'Ice Box' I wanted to be the voice for others.

But I love listening to my own songs and I know they're working well if I'm not thinking too much about them technically.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

I felt like my Ellenberger fight, I think I fought a really good fight. I was technically on-point, I was sharp, and watching the fight I wasn't disappointed. But I didn't have fun at the end of the day, and that's what I do this for. I want to express myself when I'm up there, like an artist painting a picture.

When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to help people as I figure myself out.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.