Quotes About Expression

We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.

I'm a Brooklyn kid. So for me, rap and all the other forms of music that I participate in, we catch a win? It's a win for everybody.

As I learnt Bharatanatya, I found myself participating in school and college competitions.

Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

I don't write for a particular audience.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

People listen to music when they are sad and it relaxes their minds. People listen to music when they are extremely happy like in occasions, gatherings and parties and enjoy it. Music fills colors of happiness in their life.