Quotes About Expression

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

People tell me that I'm always smilin' on the court. I don't think about it. I just get emotional out there.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Being emotional is normal, all part of the job.

If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.