Quotes about Expression
Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.
— Nelson Mandela
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
— John Updike
I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.
— Mike Huckabee
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
— George Bernard Shaw
My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.
— Lady Gaga
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
— Confucius
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
— Pablo Picasso
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
— James A. Garfield
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
— John Malkovich
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson