Quotes About Expression

A Master Craftsman of Acting, like Daniel Day-Lewis, spends years selecting, preparing, and acting for just a single film. He is not like Nicolas Cage who always just plays Nicolas Cage in every film.

Home is where you hang your architect.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

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There is nothing in the universe about which art cannot be created.

I find that as soon as I put words and ideas onto paper in my notebook, or type them into my computer, they begin to gather to themselves more images, more words and ideas. As I write I have the sensation of being at the center of a small vortex of enlarging connections, as in the poem above, and my pen or my fingers on the keyboard move faster and faster to keep pace with them.

The people who were content with each other spoke as little as those who bristled with resentment or boredom; it was the rhythm of their speech that differed, like a lazy tennis ball batted back and forth or the quick swattings of a fly. *

Only Americans smile all the time.

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?... I'll do macrame, punk.

Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jännittävää! Suurenmoinen näytelmä!

My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo .

For what might happen if we lift the codicils on belching? If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people were allowed to sing arias from Don Giovanni , loudly and out of tune, waiting in line at Department of Motor Vehicles?

It was as though a choir had been told not to sing harmoniously, but to sing their own songs, and to ensure that they were heard above the rest. I'm sure you can imagine what a deafening cacophony it would be.

band mates, audiences or bewildered passers-by on the street. Anyone, as long as he could make a connection. His was not a persona applied for a performance and removed at the end of the evening along with the gold lamé suit,

A composition can include an element of improvisation as one of its layers. But jazz improvisation is based on specific codes, which don't allow the possibility to construct multiple layers, to put together different words, to have different rhetorical gestures intact.

Creating music implies the desire to give.

Our relation to music must remain open, in a way. This is the privilege of music, not to let itself be formalized, to be locked in a certain procedure, in a certain way.

Some composers are just interested in music as form. I am much more interested in the formational aspect, in music as a process.

Perhaps that's just what music is: the search for a boundary that is continually being shifted.

Music is something that you have to do with your body. You listen with your body. In fact, a good musician has to think with his belly and to feel with his brain. That is very important.

come le figure dipinte non parlano quando le interroghi, così le parole scritte non sanno rispondere che sempre nello stesso modo, quello scelto dall'autore quando ha scritto il libro».

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.