Quotes About Expression

With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.

'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

It's fun playing small venues.

I think, in a lot of ways, it's easier to play a smaller room. You can exploit the quieter dynamics you would shy away from in larger venues.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up or rock music. It can be intimate, it can be pubic.

We've played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.