Quotes About Expression

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

The eyebrows are the punctuation marks of the face.

Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.

Singles also have an endearing ability to get out of their own way: Imagine trying to extend "Pappa-Oom-Mow-Mow" for an entire album (and one thing you'll have imagined is a central dilemma of some of today's best recordmakers).

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.

She feels like kicking out all the windows And setting fire to this life She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

Author and counselor Dennis Rainey of FamilyLife explains that women are traditionally more verbal than men. I've heard him say men usually speak about 10,000–20,000 words a day, while women speak 30,000–50,000 words per day—with gusts up to 125,000! That's why a lot of guys come home from a busy day at work, hit the sofa, and don't say a word. They can't. They've already used up their quota.

look at me,' said Fitz. 'You lost me somewhere around "substructive". Is that actually a word?

As a novel, of course, the whole thing blows dead rodents somewhat more so than a dead-rodent blowing thing. What the hell do I know about writing novels? I have enough trouble dealing with all the shit that happens in real life. I

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

Acertain blue of the sky is so damn blue that only blood could be more red.

Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

Ništa nije strašnije, kaže žena, nego kada upitaš nekoga da li te voli, a onda na njegovom licu ugledaš izraz takve dosade da bi najradije zaboravila da postojiš. Ali pitanje je ve? postavljeno, re?i vise u vazduhu kao opran veš i preostaje ti jedino da ?utiš i ?ekaš odgovor koji ionako ništa ne zna?i. (Dosada)

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.