Quotes About Expression

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

God made me a singer, and I just sang.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."