Quotes About Expression

I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said, Hey, Lets dance!. I hate dancing. God, it's stupid.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.

Music has both been my doorway to perception and the house I live in

He Said. David, you must remember that in all the functions we have in life, art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it. And that's so right. Creating something is the one area where you mustn't have caution or inhibition. If you make a startling, disastrous mess, it's fine, because you can reach out and reevaluate and plunge off into another direction. Bowie on Eno and art Interview Magazine September 1995

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously. (2012)

It wasn't so much about how I felt about things, but rather how things around me felt. To put it simply, I had discovered the Englishman's true place in rock and roll.

I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

Personal narrative is not simply opening up a vein and letting the blood flow toward anyone willing to stare. The historical self is created to keep dissonance at bay and render the subject palatable in the present.

No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.

people sometimes use teamwork as an excuse for suppressing dissenting opinions.

Simplicity and concision are tough. The French philosopher Blaise Pascal famously noted that he'd written a long letter, having lacked the time required to write a shorter one.2 As I believe, if you can't convey a thought clearly and in a few words, then your comprehension of it is probably lacking.

Forget it. Don't write for the 'mainstream'. Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just 'follow your bliss' by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.

each moment can become a full expression of your core desire.

You, however, must give her the opportunity—as well as the fullness of your masculine transmission of love.

However, when you know your true purpose, which is your core desire in life, each moment can become a full expression of your core desire. Every instant of career, every instant of intimacy, is filled with the power of your heart purpose. You are no longer just going through the motions at work and with your woman, but you are living the truth of your life, and giving the gifts of your love, moment by moment. Such a life is complete unto itself in every instant.

it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression. That's all right, Beldin, Silk forgave him grandly. These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion, Polgara said. I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language. Thank you, he said, I think.

Love can show itself in many strange ways

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.

Music, like a human being, has a soul, a heart, a mind, and a skeleton.