Quotes About Expression

It took him one minute to write. Bill stood over him, watching. "I don't know how you do that," he said. "Like the words are already inside the pen." "It's just what's in your brain," Charley said. "The way the words come to you naturally is the best way to put them down." Bill said, "The things in my head don't come in words.

I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive into the Florentine light. Years vanished, decades were erased, and he was again the boy who had come here to the feast of art.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

dancing, as a lot of parents at my school are

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Come back to town. Bring your darn ukelele! We don't care anymore!

It all boils down to what I would most like to do as a musician. Put songs on people's lips instead of just in their ears.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

Since so much of this music bubbled up urgently from my subconsious mind, I'm left to interpret it much like anyone else.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy, but when they sleep, I sing and dance.