Quotes About Expression

My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing songs for my album.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.

Everybody sung in my family.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.