Expression Quotes

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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with… — Edgard Varese
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being. — John Coltrane
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. — Luciano Pavarotti
Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a… — Fred Rogers
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading… — Rigoberta Menchu
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those… — Ralph Marston
Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance.… — Anna Pavlova
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound… — Isadora Duncan
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind… — Doris Humphrey
Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. — S. Janaki
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to… — Natalia Makarova
An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. — Michael Shurtleff
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in… — Martha Graham
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression. — La Meri
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do.… — Luis de la Fuente
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace

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