Quotes About Expression

I'm tryna figure out when I'm gonna do my version of the Moonwalk... It's coming, you know? That Dolla $ign moonwalk is comin'.

George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.

I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.

We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

My version of Dolly was mine, and it shouldn't be anyone else's.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same gender.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.