Quotes About Expression

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

The traditional country music stays because it's such an all-around good format and it's fun to write songs like 'Oh Susannah.' I just feel along with that you gotta talk about what's going on today.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn't before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way.

Whatever form of hip-hop you like, man, love it and keep it going. Keep it strong. Make sure it stays powerful.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

I would say my whole first record, 'Steady On,' had a lot to do with healing.

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I looked at it for what it really was.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.