Quotes About Expression

Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy.

Be, who you be.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can't it just be something that happens?

Given a choice between discussing the symbolism of a pig head on a stick and discussing my feelings, I'll take the pig head every time.

Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

So, now that I look like this, I'm okay? I'm not a freak because I look like you do? Well, you can go fuck yourself." Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

When we look at such boy play through the adult lens of violence, we miss the opportunity to use it as a window into a boy's hidden emotions.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Tuned pianos are pretty much alike, but no pianos are out of tune the same.

It was the best juke in Austin, had everything, old and new, black, white and brown, urban and country — It's the Great American Novel of Jukeboxes.

He wanted to do something special for her—something that would show her how much he loved her despite the distance separating them. Finally it hit him. He had the perfect idea. He'd make a video of himself masturbating in the shower and send it to her. She was certain to love it. She'd know that it was a gift from the heart. He

It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found.

George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.

you don't know what he hears because he just talks.

As often as not, he surprised himself. "What did I say?" he would ask after getting severe blowback.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

the president-elect wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed. This had become the public Trump—truculent Trump.

It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.

It's not just about the words. It's about how music takes us out of ourselves, how it relieves our pains, lets loose something in our hearts, makes us feel better in ways we never knew we could.