Quotes About Expression

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in this world of possibility.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.