Quotes About Expression

I think that place is a huge part of pretty much any musician's work, in how one responds to an environment, whether it be your actual surroundings or the more figurative place we're all living in.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.

Music is everything. Evidence of the divine. The possibility of man to be good. The possibility of improving our surroundings and expressing ourselves. All of these things are collapsed together in my mind.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Surviving in music is the same as surviving in a place like Knowle West - sometimes you need to be low-key, but sometimes you need to make your presence felt.

Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals, as groups, but also as the human race.

In 'Bigg Boss,' there were so many things that I didn't say and as a result, people thought I was a fake. I have not let it happen in 'Survivor.'

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.