Quotes About Expression

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

I love music more than anything; I don't think I would want to go into a strictly music field.

The paso doble is my favourite dance on 'Strictly,' so I'm so pleased I get to do it.

All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people's stories that you hear, or something you read. It's fun as a writer to pull from all those different places, and to connect them. But also, I don't have an interesting enough life to strictly pull from that.

I'd like to do 'Strictly' because you learn something.

As art and/or design is often treated strictly as a hobby. But there are many who follow their passion and go ahead with that idea to carve a niche for themselves.

Basically, when I put on clothes, it's all strictly about my mood. It's all about how I'm feeling that day or in that moment.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids - they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife.

In India, there's so much strife, pain and trouble that song, dance and going to the movies is respite.

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.

The sincerity of delivery is what always strikes me when I hear a good band. It's artist-expression driven, as opposed to being record-producer driven. There's a huge difference. One's motivation is impure, while the other is the highest form of expression, so that's what you aim for.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.

I can't help it: when something strikes me, I write it down.