Quotes About Expression

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

students suffer from page fright.

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

Writing is writing

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

It's like what Miles Davis says: "Don't worry about mistakes, there aren't any.

All this is nothing but space to be danced in. There's no need to feel harnessed or limited in any way . . . When the Dude is not in, life just blossoms.

Bananas! Here! Blah, blah! Whatever!

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say "romantic," I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn't know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, and that can mean vast things. That sort of mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.

A book or a work of art--culture--cannot by itself change the world, but by asking questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, the brutal and the casual kinds. It might aspire to starting a conversation through which together we might find common meaning, and words that free.

Millions wanted to see shows written, directed, and acted by people of colour telling stories about themselves. Duh.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

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