Quotes About Expression

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

How difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others.

Afirmaba que era una abominación y se empeñaba en referise a la corrección política como la destrucción del idioma

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me . In New York it's fuck you .

They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.

Music is the structure of the invisible," she says.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world's richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signaling; modern shoppers must make dozens of food choices every week, providing far more opportunities for political expression than electoral politics; and food is a product you consume, so eating something implies a deeply personal endorsement of it. But

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

In English-language speech, we spend five times as much time producing vowels as consonants. In singing, that ratio can hit two hundred to one.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.