Quotes About Expression

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.