Quotes About Expression

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

To play without passion is inexcusable!

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.

I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen.

For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years.

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I'm paid to hear voices in my head.

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches.

He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you "had love toward" her, as if itwere a physical thing you could present and hold—a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness.

In our world, Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, there will be no semicolons.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you really have one of your own?