Quotes About Expression

And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility.

None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some of the best have been very good writers. He should know, moreover, that at least for a few great men ambiguity of expression has been a positive asset. But with these exceptions he may safely conclude that what is wholly mysterious in economics is not likely to be important.

An articulate community, liberal in the United States, social democratic or socialist in Europe and Japan, does ascribe economic or other motive to the interest-serving view. This can be quite wrong. What rewards particular interest may reflect only a normal tendency to self-benefiting expression and action.

It was usually on about the fourth day that I put in that note of spontaneity for which I am known.

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

I said a lot of things sarcastically that summer; that was my sarcastic summer

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Give us a kiss

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

Those of you in the cheaper seats can clap your hands, and those of you in the balcony can just rattle your jewelry.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!