Quotes About Freedom

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?

If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

If you want a show to talk about politics or the Muslim ban or whatever - someone should make that show. That's not what I'm interested in.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

The king must die so that the country can live.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I'm a free bird and I follow my own rules.

I never wanted to work for anybody else; I always wanted to be my own boss.

I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

My soul is not for sale.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.