Quotes About Expression

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

It's not about being modern or classical or about being sexy: it's all about exchanging energies with the audience.

When I was 16, I felt I might be left with some effeminacy because of all the dancing. I was so full of classical dance that I wanted to get away and do something else.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

I was born out of classical music.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from Western classical music. African music is completely different.

I don't even want to say I'm trying to necessarily popularize classical music, I just want to take this thing, this cello, this sound, and make it artistic so people can understand it today.

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

The choreography in films is completely different. I find it easier when I am asked to dance to classical music, but it's a different ball game altogether.

Indian classical music is in my blood.

My songs are classics.

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.