Quotes About Expression

I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.

I want my films to be different, to use different techniques, not just make a calling card film.

To write, I think it is very important to read. The more you read, the more you know the techniques of writing.

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

I believe that if I wasn't born in this technological and 'social media' era, I would have found another way to express myself.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.

Original hip hop manipulated technologies of all sorts; it was not manipulated by the technology itself.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.

I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.