Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.

There's only one thing, in the end, and that's singing truth in a pleasant way.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

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 think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.