Quotes About Expression

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled a song.

I love Parliament Funkadelic.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

I want to do all kinds of roles. It's a part and parcel of my job.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

I ultimately do still feel like an outsider, and I do feel, actually, I'm more in the world of music because of how much I participate with musicians - in all aspects, not just clothes.

People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

I don't think I would participate in 'Eurovision,' but I would love to write a song for it. But it would have to be for Norway, obviously. Do it for my country.