Quotes About Expression

Original music is always appreciated.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Twerking is definitely from New Orleans.

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.