Quotes About Expression

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Art isn't complete until it's shared.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

I will keep painting until I die.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

The problem with Donald Trump was that he had no filter. There may have not been a single thought he left unexpressed or failed to share with the American public during his first term - at least until Biden's buddies in Big Tech censored and deplatformed him and his supporters.

My creativity is an entity unto its own.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

I've never relegated the lip-synch to a lower form of entertainment. Lip-synching is an art unto itself. A lot of people can't do it.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.