Quotes About Expression

In its failure to value differences in the way people learn, the educational process often suppresses intuition, creativity, and your sense of identity.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

He said nothing. Very sarcastically.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way ' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.

When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away from me cmon now), so I tell you leave when I mean stay

He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.

When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself.

More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and for violinists, who cannot see where to place their fingers and have nothing to guide them through touch, music must be more than ever about memory than fingertips and breath; the ventage is deeper, more of the self, closer to singing.

Why did girls never play air guitar? Did we sing along because singing was what girls did or was it that girls only sang because they didn't play air guitar? These are not questions I asked myself at the time. I was pushing away such complications.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.