Quotes About Expression

Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given them little alternative but to find other means of expression. Inevitably, some of this would be violent.

I admired punk because I came from a violent band as well. Especially in the first four or five years, we were very aggressive when we played live.

People are attracted to confidence and a commitment to ideas, no matter what those ideas are. People can gravitate towards something being said passionately or violently or expressively.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

I use M.A.C. Brow Gel to bring out my eyebrows, then I curl my eyelashes every morning and apply M.A.C. Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Venomous Violet with my fingers - I use it as a lip balm multiple times throughout the day because I hate having bare lips.

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor.

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

The violin sings.

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.