Quotes About Expression

Those bands, in their style and approach, that's what I call tits-and-ass metal," comments Rob Halford of Judas

As it turned out, heavy metal would repeatedly prove to be best inspired from a distance—where strong impressions, memories, and images were encouraged to run amok in the imagination.

I felt almost sick with wanting to tell her how I felt, but I couldn't think of words to suit my feelings.

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

What exactly he would say, I couldn't imagine, but I felt sure that as soon as I had actually got everything off my chest, I wouldn't have to worry any more.

Records blurt out trapped moments of rapture, fear, love, anguish, despair, excitement, and insanity. When an album plays, it is a ghost wailing, imprisoned in the moment, rattling its chains.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was.

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

Poetry could be a brilliant antidote to some of our current cultural problems...our collective attention deficit.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

we only read when you write

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.

SEX IS THE MAIN way guys express their emotions. Making love is our way of saying "I love you" and truly feeling it, as well as really meaning it. While women generally deem closeness a prerequisite for engaging in sex, for a man, having sex is the main way of achieving a true sense of closeness with a woman. Brain

Gavin recognized the look of his father, a half-empty bottle of resentment in his hand.

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.

Language and how close it comes to truth, and how far away it is.

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover.

I am cold," he said. The three words shattered. Before them he had not known that he could speak, that there even existed a thing called speech. "I am cold, and I can speak," he said. The words sounded good to him.