Quotes About Expression

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.