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Quotes About Expression

I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.
~ Ella Eyre
The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
~ Joshua Cohen
My emoji vocabulary is pretty limited to, like, the smiling poop and the rainbow and a unicorn or something.
~ Bob Morley
Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.
~ Jenova Chen
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
~ Ludovico Einaudi
I am a bit of a dynamic personality and have the ability to use my vocabulary in some creative ways.
~ Mauro Ranallo
I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.
~ Roy Hodgson
A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before.
~ Hiro Murai
I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.
~ Amanda Shires
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu well.
~ Gulzar
Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary of images, or whatever it is.
~ Grayson Perry
In life, if you stay quiet, you'll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.
~ Jaylen Brown
Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
~ Felicia Day
I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.
~ Mariah Carey
Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don't come until later.
~ Synyster Gates
I have enough trouble just speaking normal Australian. On 'Vikings,' we had a great vocal coach who helped make all of us sound the same. But I'm very bad at accents, to be honest.
~ Travis Fimmel
I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
~ Benjamin Orr
When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
~ Taylor Swift
I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.
~ Hilarie Burton
I can sample Blink-182 but put an African vocal sample in there.
~ Doja Cat
Toplines usually suck. I'll send a song to a band or artist whose entire body of work I love and I'll ask them to do a vocal for one of my songs and I'll get it back and I'll hate it so much. It might have to do with my possessiveness over my music.
~ Porter Robinson
Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it wasn't as if you had to drag the words out of my vocal chords.
~ Frank Deford
The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
~ Humphrey Lyttelton