Quotes About Expression

We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation and reflection. We have to learn to notice and be aware of our internal experiences, to search our hearts and find words for what is inside us. Being fully known and understood requires that we say aloud to someone else what is going on within our souls.

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

Don t play what's there, play what's not there.

See, music is about style.

Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Don't play what s there play what's not there.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.

Why'd you put that white bitch on there?

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

Pero cuando se habla, no se mira. Los charlatanes nunca ven nada.

It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.

How easily language makes one remember something that that language neither says nor wants to say and that would never occur to you, no matter what you are told.

Los sueños no habitan una solución lingüística, sino que flotan en un espacio libre, atemporal, y tan pronto se transforman en lengua o escritura, pierden su carácter voluminoso y se estiran en longitud.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.