Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.

Music I do just for me.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

Express yourself in any way possible.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.