Quotes About Expression

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem.

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art.

You have to feel what's right, and sometimes what's right in art is sad.

What kind of soldier carries music instead of guns?

Adrian Forty was perhaps the first person to propose that the surprise answer to the missing term in the old equation, architecture = buildings + x, was words. If that's right, as I am increasingly persuaded, it explains why so much talk and writing envelops the practice of design.

Don't let fashion dictate your style.

The strength of an artist lies in how much of themselves they are prepared to reveal in their art.' Iain Cameron Williams, 2021, 'Other People's Dreams' to be published in 2022.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it

I looked at this first sheet, words scribbled confidently on a lined pad. My attempt at making contact the spirit of Llandor. Disaster. I couldn't do the language or locate the period. The pad of paper, with its grey-mauve rules, was all wrong. It was intended for meaningful work, figures, calculations, notes.

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it.

Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

Second, writing is dangerous for philosophy—and for serious scholarly practice in general. It's not because writing breaks from its origins as Plato would have it, but because writing is only one form of being. The long-standing assumption that we relate to the world only through language is a particularly fetid, if still bafflingly popular, opinion.

Gilbert and Sullivan is for me ... a balm, a tonic, and a stimulant. When I am down, it picks me up. When I am tired, it restores me. When I am feeling on top of the world, it lets me express my joy in song." -- Ian Bradley, "Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!

In your emails, instead of just writing about your topics, tell a story that illustrates your points.

Jan Garbarek about Keith Jarrett: "What people don't consider is all his wonderful ways of accompanying his own melodies. That is only that version. But I've played with him so many nights and they were all different!... The way he voiced things and the inner lines he played behind the melody, and his own compositions were often radically different, but no less beautiful… It's hard to believe!

Talking of his relationship with Jarrett, DeJohnette says, "I love him because, as a pianist and drummer myself, I can identify with him … the concept of what to ignore, what to leave in, what to leave out… we intuitively understand that … that's why when we play together… we never know what's going to happen, but we always get something happening that turns us on.

The Rolling Stone magazine: " Jarrett… demonstrated his strengths – his sure times, his far-ranging imagination, his sharply-honed technique and his particular inner fire, which is at once steady and vulnerable. When he plays alone, Jarrett pushes his creativity to its limits. It's almost scary to hear someone who apparently relies so totally on the spirited, flowing, almost effusive directions of his muse, yet the muse seems to never let him down.