Quotes About Freedom

I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

I dont have anything against walls. You know what it is? I like open spaces.

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

I wear my pajamas. That's the thing I love most about writing. I don't get changed until I actually have to go out of the house. I'll write and take a late lunch or go to a coffee shop when I get where I can't stand the four walls anymore.

If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first to give politicians awards to hang on their office walls.

I never think that walls can protect you.

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.

It takes courage to break down the walls that keep you away from really living your life.

If people want to wear a mask into a Walmart or into a restaurant or into any other business - not only should they be allowed to do so; in many instances, they ought to be credited for doing so.

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.