Quotes About Expression

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

MacKaye never told anyone to get off the stage. Sometimes this encouraged a rapid and irreversible descent into chaos, but usually it just meant a steady stream of stage divers and kids who just wanted a few seconds of attention while they did some silly dance for their buddies. Anarchy, it seemed, could work.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

Punk rock was an idea, not a musical style.

believe in music in that way—if you want something to happen, you write a song about it.

he knew in his heart he was not a prejudiced person. "So once that's given, once you know what you think, there's no reason to be ginger about what you say," he said. "A lot of people, they're very careful not to say things that might offend certain people or do anything that might be misinterpreted. But what they don't realize is that the point of all this is to change the way you live your life, not the way you speak.

For the novelist, knowledge is not subdivided into rigidly demarcated compartments, and there are no taboos, no 'disreputable' subjects.

born Rastafari," but had "assumed the posture" in the late seventies or early eighties after being exposed to reggae music.

the way to fight Babylon was through music.

It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

Ive always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake... and develop my own point of view. But the first thing youve got to do is youve got to let people speak and youve got to listen. And thats what the first amendment is all about. Thats what really distinguishes this country from others.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

Daphne stopped and turned to the injured man. "I like my outfit," she said and stuck her tongue out. Mr. Applebee stuck his tongue out, too, and the little girl stomped out of the room.

I hear noises coming from his mouth but they don't sound like words," Daphne said.

Iiiiiiiidoooooghwannnnagiiiiiiiitupppffff," the little girl grumbled.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Immature poets borrow. Mature poets steal.

Words have power", he said intensely. "They have a life of their own. They shift the balance of the world.

Cher Paul, the artist must always ask himself, am I painting the surface only, or am I revealing the eternal soul of my subjects? Without this, we only add to the agony. We too would be merely using the prostitutes—and worse, for we do not pay them.