Frank McCourt Quotes

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

As a writer, you are free.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.