Quotes About Expression

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

I've been vegan longer than I've been a singer. And it's definitely something that I try to put across in my work, but that's just because I really care about it.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Many artists, when they are creating art, are searching for a vehicle that can manifest a feeling they have inside of themselves.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to prohibit speech that was critical of it.