Quotes About Expression

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

I don't like it when people shout on stage without any particular reason. It carries no weight.

I always carry my camera with me.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

Not a lot of people get to say, 'I'm a cartoon character.'

I do love sparse cartooning.

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

I am principally an artist. I became a political cartoonist.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.