Quotes About Expression

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.

When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.

The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I'm feeling when I'm not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It's just venting.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.

Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

I don't know one note from another.

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music for films. I chose to write music because I like to write music. So every single note that comes out of my studio is written by me, and I wouldn't be able to do two movies at the same time.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.