Quotes About Expression

The goal of serious musicians is to play outside of yourself. That's most likely with people who suggest things that are outside your musical experience.

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

If you have a beard, I would suggest putting glitter on it, because it will make you look fancy.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.

It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

I believe in carrying all the looks that are suggested to me in my very own way.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it.

Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.

I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow.

What really irks me is the snide victimizing suggestion from some that I have tried to be lighthearted and funny... Oh my God - this is so offensive.

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.