Natalie Maines Quotes

To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

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

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

I dance anywhere. I just start moving my feet.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.