Form Quotes

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.