Quotes About Expression

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

You don't make a statement unless you make noise.

Nowadays, everyone is sporting a tattoo, so the uniqueness of having one is gone unless you have an original tattoo.

I always felt like I was stupid and couldn't get anything right unless I was singing, dancing, or acting.

One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Kannada was easy for me to learn because it's casual and easy; no frills, unlike Tamil.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.

Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

I can't work like a machine, unlike other TV actors.

Street art, unlike graffiti, adds to the environment and is a positive experience for the artist and community.

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.