Quotes About Expression

Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova.

Idézet, "én", idézet vége, foglalta össze Esti Kornél a modern utáni irodalmi törekvéseket és azok nyomorúságát és szükségszer?ségét, majd meghalt, de nem bírt.

Egy idézet Thomas Manntól – vagy GoethétÅ'l?, minden idézet vagy Thomas Manntól, vagy GoethétÅ'l való – mutatja az irányt: Író az, akinek gondot okoz az írás.

De, ismétlem, a valódi irodalmi m?, nem is okvetlenül a remekm?, mint egy élÅ'lény: kimeríthetetlen. És szabad.

Az úgynevezett irodalmi szenzációk többnyire nem irodalmiak, bár mivel azt, mi az irodalom, nem tudja senki élÅ' ember, azt is jótékony homály fedi, mi az irodalmi szenzáció. Talán itt is úgy van, hogy az az, amit annak mondanak.

Don't just plan to write—write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

My mom is a sculptress.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

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If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

In the midst of a culture that glorifies indulgent, self-expression, we may find…that when we find the strength to engage in considerate listening we are in fact expressing ourselves. At our best (p. 53).

Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Music will save the world.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.