Quotes About Expression

You can't write something to please someone.

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

Playing in a band, selling records through mail order, and selling clothes - these are all things I love doing. If that can please others, then I couldn't be happier.

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

If you're going to perform, you're going to attract criticism. You can't please everyone all the time. You don't know how things are going to come out. But that's part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

Art is difficult. It's not always going to please everyone; it's not always going to work the way you want it to work.

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is a magical moment. I never lost that buzz.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Find one note on the instrument that pleases you, and then find another note that also pleases you.

I can sing, but I don't know how pleasing it is to the ear, you know.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.