Quotes About Expression

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

For him, poetry was an inverted form of sympathetic magic: what it tries to preserve disappears, — David Jauss, from section 6 of "The Wandering Between Worlds," Black Warrior Review (vol. 23, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1996)

For me art is a spontaneous journey on the crest of the Tao's wave

We can ask ourselves each day, how has my "inner person" been given the opportunity to speak and act today?

That opting out [of creativity] that happens in childhood … moves in and becomes more ingrained by the time you get to adult life.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

did someone drop the f bomb

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. —Goethe

Though few if any of the gamers had seen pictures of Romero, they figured he was the guy wearing the black T-shirt with the militaristic Doom logo on the front and the bold white words "Wrote It" on the back. The shirt was Romero's own modification. After id had printed up a bunch of promotional tees, he suggested they add the phrase "Wrote It" for their own. He even sent his mother a Doom shirt with the words "My Son Wrote It" on the back.

We live in an era when everyone wants to tell his or her story, but there is no real sense of what story means anymore.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude," George Orwell argued in his essay "Why I Write,

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain,

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain," he said.

It seems not improbable that when Turing let slip the fact of his homosexuality "accidentally," especially to a young man like Bayley, he was hoping against hope that the admission might provoke an expression of reciprocal desire. That rarely happened. Later he told Robin Gandy, "Sometimes you're sitting talking to someone and you know that in three quarters of an hour you will either be having a marvellous night or you will be kicked out of the room.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

Speciàl" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinion.

Spécial is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone) is…peculiar.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

the best poems are those in which the author avoids concealment and obfuscation, and the truth of that person, eccentric, vulnerable, and brilliant, bears itself out in a sound heretofore unheard.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.